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...prefabricated units in school yards, construction will fall well short of present needs. Only 3% of all households in Hyogo prefecture, which includes Kobe, were covered by earthquake insurance. Even people who can afford to build a new home are likely to be stymied at first by a moratorium on postquake construction, a policy intended to avert slapdash projects and allow time for possible new building-code and zoning strictures. In Kobe's case, officials were thinking about extending the normal two-month delay to as long as half a year...
...startling move, Bernard Cardinal Law of Boston called last week for a moratorium on all demonstrations outside abortion clinics to prevent "anything which might engender anger or some other form of violence." Instead, he wrote in the Archdiocesan paper the Pilot, he will designate five churches for antiabortion prayer vigils. "It is very significant when a prominent bishop asks pro-lifers to roll back their activities," says Lawler. But while the National Conference of Catholic Bishops supported Law's action in the Boston area, it stressed that each bishop is sovereign in his own diocese and that there...
...seems like the Catholic Church may have gotten the message. Cardinal Bernard Law recently called for a moratorium on clinic protests "to avoid on the side of the pro-life movement anything which might engender anger or some other form of violence." This courageous move should be applauded by pro-choice and anti-choice activists alike. It is a step in the right direction, but only a step...
...first time in 12 years, and his signature issue, health care reform, was at the forefront of the congressional agenda. He was recently married to an intelligent, attractive lawyer, and good feeling towards the senator was running so high that late-night comedian Jay Leno decided to put a moratorium on Ted Kennedy jokes...
Other organizations are taking a different tack. The American Medical Association's (AMA) Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, responsible for governing residencies, recently lifted a one-year moratorium on accrediting new sub-specialties. They temporary suspension was designed to remedy the nation's problem of "too few generalists and too many specialists...