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...situation holds promise as well as threat. Four republics -- Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belorussia -- stand to inherit all the long-range strategic warheads and perhaps 90% of the tactical weapons. The republics talk , of dismantling many of these arms; Ukraine and Belorussia insist they eventually want no nukes whatsoever on their soil. But it is by no means certain that the republics can agree, among themselves and with what remains of Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin government, on any program for actually achieving those aims before the momentum of dissolution leads to far different results: bitter squabbles over who controls...
Whoever wins on Nov. 16 will inherit a spate of challenges: social, environmental, political and, above all, economic. For all the charm of the French Quarter and the sparkling new downtown hotels, New Orleans faces some of the worst urban problems of any U.S. city. With the local economy gripped by a decade-long recession, big industry is disappearing; the river port is languishing; schools are crumbling; the tax base is shrinking; the regional jobless rate stands at 6.8%. Drugs and crime run rampant in many neighborhoods, and the murder rate is among the nation's highest. "The jails...
...saddens me that this is the country we might give to our children to inherit," he said...
...INHERIT THE WIND. What better way to celebrate the Bill of Rights' 200th anniversary than to revive this drama about the clash between freedom of speech and freedom of religion in Tennessee's 1925 "monkey trial" about evolution? Staged five times a weekend through Dec. 15 in an actual courtroom of Philadelphia City Hall, it features Malachy McCourt as William Jennings Bryan, and Jason Miller, Pulitzer-prizewinning author of That Championship Season, as his adversary, Clarence Darrow...
...number of bizarre court cases have cropped up as a result of ambiguities in the rules governing the new technologies. In one peculiar case, a wealthy couple died in a plane accident, leaving two frozen embryos as their only direct heirs; a court decided that the embryos could not inherit the estate. In a case that is still pending, a divorced Tennessee couple are battling over whether the woman has the right to make use of frozen embryos created while the couple were still married...