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...just when it seemed the lid was closed on Yale's coffin, the team came alive...
Because of the ever increasing importance of economic issues, pressure is building to give Germany and Japan permanent places on the Security Council, but without the power of the veto that the "perm five" possess. Opponents of that idea fear that revising the Charter would lift the lid of Pandora's box: the Third World would demand its own place on the Security Council in the form of seats for three regional powers -- India, Brazil and Nigeria. Otherwise, power in the council would be weighted against the poorer nations of the world...
...former communist satellite nations, the red downfall has lifted the lid off long-suppressed ethnic nationalism, while prompting some people with no tradition of democracy to look for an alternative form of "strong" government. In the West, right-wing movements have inherited some of the generalized protest vote that used to go communist. Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front does well these days in the industrial suburbs of Paris that were long known as the Red Belt...
...southland's smoggy air largely results from poor atmospheric ventilation in the bowl-shaped South Coast Air Basin, where an "inversion layer" traps pollutants under a lid of hot air. In the daytime, ocean breezes waft pollution inland all across the basin. Then sunshine triggers a photochemical reaction that produces the highest ozone concentration in the U.S. Established in 1977, the district aims to bring Southern California's air quality into compliance with federal standards by 2010. If the agency falls short of that goal, Washington could take over. Given the terrain and the hodgepodge of local governments involved, only...
...collapse of the Soviet empire let the lid blow off Eastern Europe's ugly assortment of old ethnic hostilities. At the same time, for different reasons, countries in Western Europe are becoming increasingly aware of the pressures generated by their own changing racial mix. As their Muslim and African populations have increased, Europeans who for decades delighted in accusing the U.S. of bigotry and violence have discovered they are not nearly as tolerant as they thought they were...