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...gooder, and the only thing certain is that it is probably wrong. Volunteer work is not the sole province of the housewives holding Christmas fairs, the idle rich sponsoring benefits and the young selling cookies. The aggressive, entrepreneurial cast of much modern charity reflects the fact that the largest number of volunteers, according to a J.C. Penney survey, are between the ages...
...rocket ship. Thanks largely to his agents at ProServ, a Washington-based sports marketing firm, Jordan will earn an estimated $5 million off the court this year. His list of corporate endorsements keeps growing: Chevrolet, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Johnson Products (personal-care items produced by one of the largest black-owned businesses in the U.S.), Nike. And last fall Jordan became the first basketball player ever to appear on a box of Wheaties...
...Drexel still displays its characteristic moxie. The firm is handling a $3.5 billion junk-bond offering as part of the $25 billion leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco. For its share in financing history's largest takeover, Drexel expects to take in $229 million before expenses. Many clients still profess their allegiance. Says raider and oilman Pickens, who relied on Drexel's financing clout to make bids for Gulf Corp. and Phillips Petroleum: "I have the highest regard for Fred Joseph...
...Neva, which meanders beside the magnificent Hermitage in Leningrad, is covered with a thick layer of oil. Ill-advised dam construction and inappropriate irrigation projects have caused the level of the Aral Sea to drop 40 ft. It is possible that this body of water, the world's sixth largest sea, will not exist in 20 years. Siberia, once pristine, is laced with wastes from steel, chemical and coal industries. Worrisome numbers of dead sturgeon are floating atop the polluted Volga River, threatening the Soviets' prestigious caviar supply. Resorts along the Black Sea have banned swimming after the government...
From an international perspective, the most disturbing aspect of the Soviet economy is the enormous quantity of carbon dioxide it puts into the air. Because the machines in many Soviet factories are obsolete and inefficient, they consume an inordinate amount of energy, making the country one of the largest contributors to the greenhouse effect. The Soviets are aware of this problem and hope to solve it by importing technology designed to improve energy efficiency and pollution control. They hope that much of that technology will come from the U.S. Said Morgun: "We will go anyplace, over any mountain, over...