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...smoking to lung cancer, and a stream of reforms soon followed. In 1966 cigarette makers were forced to put labels on their packages warning consumers about the health risks of smoking. In 1971 cigarette ads were barred from TV and radio. The medical evidence against smoking, meanwhile, continued to mount; cigarettes were linked to heart disease, emphysema and low-birth- weight babies. In 1986, when Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released one of the first widely publicized reports on the detrimental effects of passive smoke, the issue shifted from personal health (what smokers are doing to themselves) to environmental damage...
Political violence related to demands by some Zulus for a sovereign state in South Africa's Natal province continued to mount, with the death toll reaching . 125 for the past week. Two weeks remain before the country's all-race election, but in a Friday summit, President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela failed to persuade Zulu leaders to drop their election boycott...
...result of the Albright attack, Gans says NOLS trips will no longer travel to the Masai-Mara area. Instead, student groups will spend more time around Mount Kenya, he says...
...Immigration Service sought to deport a Nigerian woman, Lydia Oluloro, to a country where she would not be able to protect her young daughters from a "tradition" requiring part of the children's genitalia to be sliced away ((LAW, March 21)). The U.S. government and the United Nations should mount a worldwide campaign against every form of culturally sanctioned violence involving women and girls, including genital mutilation, forced prostitution and ritual starvation, all of which are practiced by countries that receive huge amounts of aid. At the same time, we must begin to take gender violence seriously right here...
...journalism brat," Painton is the daughter of Fred Painton, who retired as a TIME senior writer in 1991. She was raised (bilingually) in Paris, where her family has lived for the past 32 years. She worked briefly as an editorial secretary at TIME after graduating from Mount Holyoke College, but wanted to earn her credentials outside the fold. This she did, impressively, with the Washington Post and the Atlanta Constitution. She carried on the family tradition by marrying another journalist, Tim Smith, now an editor at the Wall Street Journal. (Their latest collaboration: Isabel, three months, who joins 3 1/2-year-old...