Word: michigan
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...MICHIGAN: On to the Ballot...
...weeks to come, pro-life groups will go on the offensive in such states as Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, South Carolina, Michigan and, of course, Missouri, where strong grass-roots organizations already exist and the legislatures are larded with sympathetic officials. Pro- lifers will attempt to go well beyond the provisions in the Missouri statute. In some states bills may be introduced that would make a woman seeking an abortion listen to the fetal heartbeat and look at pictures of a fetus at the same level of development as hers...
Spence has already appeared on presidential search lists at Princeton and the University of Michigan. And when Bok steps down sometime during the next few years...
Wilson, a University of Michigan administrator, was not even considered for the Radcliffe presidency until several candidates on the initial search list had asked not to be considered. She is a chemist by training, and some expect her to be an advocate for increasing the numbers of women in science...
Activists have become more sophisticated and effective in their protests. When Michigan homemaker Terry Rakolta was offended by Fox Network's raunchy Married . . . With Children, she threatened the program's advertisers with a boycott. The sponsors in turn pressured the fledgling network, which toned down its show. Animal-rights groups singled out the Draize test, in which dyes are injected into rabbits' eyes, in their effort to persuade the cosmetics industry to cut down on animal testing. Last week Avon Products announced that it would stop such experiments. Even Ralph Nader, the quintessential business basher, has adopted a more moderate...