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...bill. But Bush, unlike his predecessor, still needs the support of the all-too-powerful gun lobby, and has instead chosen to play political games with Congress. The president offered up his own bill to prohibit the domestic assembly of military-style semi-automatic weapons that are banned for import. Bush's bill is designed to offend nobody; as a result, it helps nobody...
Curbing the toxic cloud does not come cheap. The oil facility's shutdown will cost $500 million, put more than 5,000 people out of work, and require Mexico to import, at least temporarily, some refined petroleum. But even this dramatic move represents only a beginning. Three-quarters of Mexico City's air pollution comes from the capital's antiquated fleet of 15,000 smoke-belching buses, 40,000 taxis and almost 3 million automobiles. Already the government has revamped 3,500 buses with new, less polluting engines. Last week President Salinas announced a $1.3 million program to replace outmoded...
Although breast cancer is of major scientific and clinical import--about 150,000 American women each year are afflicted with the disease--researchers are still in the dark about whether the same mechanism for tumor growth applies to all other cancers. Weidner's group is just now beginning to repeat the breast cancer research, by performing similar tests on prostate cancers...
...citrus, the bruiser has been import liberalization. In 1988 Canberra relaxed tariffs on a variety of products, enabling Brazilian oranges to capture 20% of the domestic market. Australia's 167,000 farmers protested that such imports were heavily subsidized by foreign governments. But Canberra remains committed to free trade in an effort to make the country more competitive. Whether market-oriented policies will rescue the countryside is the big gamble: a question, as the doomed sheep might attest, of killing some agriculture in order to save...
...their expense. "This will destroy all prospects for negotiations," says Saeb Erakat, professor of political science at An-Najah University in Nablus. To most Palestinians, each incoming planeload lessens the chances of preserving their hold on the West Bank and Gaza. It is a matter of almost equal import to the arriving Jews. As they settle with difficulty into their new lives, they must also face up to an ideological choice that could determine whether they and their neighbors can ever live in peace...