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...last week wasn't universal. Declared Meg McDonald, Australian Ambassador for the Environment: "We think it's better to do what's realistic... than have unrealistic targets which are never reached." And although Raul Estrada-Oyuela of Argentina, chairman of the Bonn session, criticized the U.S. position as "very modest," he was "impressed by the fact that Clinton chose to make the offer himself. That is encouraging." Estrada-Oyuela warned other representatives against reacting impulsively and said the measures proposed by the U.S. would have to be analyzed carefully before action could be taken. Diplomatic words, certainly, but also...
...These were randomly divided into two groups. One was given 120 mg of ginkgo extract, the other a placebo. Neither the doctors nor their patients knew who had been given what until the end of the study. Meanwhile, researchers measured mental deterioration using three standardized tests. The improvements were modest--a few points, say, on a 70-point scale--and showed up in only two of the three tests, but because the precautions were so elaborate, scientists are confident that the results are real...
...This is the first evidence of new thinking in the post-Cold War," Allison said. "It's only a modest beginning...
...been raised on inspiring stories of educational localism--of parents and teachers in modest, out-of-the-way places who somehow, through spirit and hard work, maintain schools whose graduates can perform in a world economy. These stories are true, but they mislead somewhat: American education is not quite so decentralized as it looks...
Americans were innocent, in the '50s, we are often told. In the '50s, nice women like Donna Reed waited for their honest, hard-working husbands in modest homes on safe, tree-lines street. Their children learned to ride their bicycles and played games with the neighbor's kids--even after sunset. Trouble lay just under the surface, of course: people had to confront racism, McCarthyism and sexism; they built bomb shelters and thought about the Cold War. For the most part, though, these things remained submerged...