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...neglected one simple way to help??curb emissions: don't drink bottled water. Think of all those millions of plastic bottles. Most municipal water in the U.S. is safe and can be made palatable with inexpensive filters. The water is transported to its final destination largely using gravity, which creates no emissions. And the feel-good factor? A friend of mine figured that over the course of a year she saved almost $1,000--enough to take herself on an environmentally friendly vacation...
Appropriate obstetric care can help??prevent premature labor. An increasing number of Americans cannot afford medical insurance, and there is a high percentage of the uninsured among younger, less financially secure people. Since this group tends to have the highest rate of pregnancy, it's possible that premature labor may worsen as America's health-care crisis worsens. I encounter young couples all the time who are prospective parents but have no way of accessing appropriate antenatal care. This makes no sense when 16% of the U.S. gross domestic product is spent on health care...
...murders. Radio Moscow blamed the Israelis and their "Lebanese Christian puppets" for the massacre. Zehdi Labib Terzi, P.L.O. observer at the U.N., denounced what he called the "genocide" in West Beirut, and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, declaring that as many as 1,400 had been slain, appealed for help???including from the Soviet Union?in protecting the lives of Palestinians in Lebanon. The U.S., France and Italy, the three nations that had contributed troops to the peacekeeping force in Lebanon last month, called on the UN. to dispatch observer teams to the "place of suffering and human loss...
...humanitarian element of New Deal liberalism?the sense that society's unfortunate people ought to have some help???is very much a part of Baker's makeup. He tends to be thoroughly cynical about Big Business and nearly as disenchanted with Big Government and Big Labor. But his scope is vast...
...against him, including grand larceny, possession of narcotics and bribery of public officials. Imprisoned for extortion on one of the few occasions when he failed to duck the prosecutors, Corallo lost control of his family to one Andimo Pappadio. He regained it last September by arranging?with Galante's help???for Pappadio's murder...