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Eight of the nation's 13 largest health-care systems are Catholic, according to Catholics for a Free Choice, an advocacy group critical of the church's stance on reproductive issues. There were some 120 mergers between Catholic and non-Catholic institutions from 1994 to 1998, and CFFC estimates that reproductive health care was reduced or eliminated in half those cases...
...just who are these caregivers? Catholic health services have historically reached out to underserved communities, aggressively promoting immunization programs and sometimes even building low-income housing, considered fundamental to good health. Ten percent of the nation's 4,800 hospitals (not including long-term and specialty-care centers) are Catholic, according to the American Hospital Association. They enjoy a nonprofit tax status, a financial advantage that some critics feel is unfair in the highly competitive health-care market...
Critics of the Senate's rejection of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty have their head in the sand [NATION, Oct. 25]. We have not used nuclear weapons in more than 54 years, and we need not use them if we maintain Ronald Reagan's very simple, commonsense strategy whereby we will always be the biggest, fairest kid on the block. ROBERT H. BICKMEYER Troy, Mich...
...defeat of the Test-Ban Treaty affects our nation's economy as well as our national security. Without strong international controls on proliferation, to which the treaty can contribute, there will be limited trade in the peaceful uses of nuclear technology. This multibillion-dollar industry has become important to the U.S. in many areas, including energy, medical uses and industrial applications. We need to have the maximum number of U.S. government-supported controls on weapons development. This will increase our security and our level of comfort with the continuing trade in and information exchange on the peaceful uses of nuclear...
...Clinton Administration's noble goal of getting every public school online by 2001 has a downside risk. Up to 70% of the nation's 30 million schoolchildren are being given access to computers, but little attention is being paid to the kinds of equipment, including desks and keyboard rests, they are using--and to the potential for injury or even permanent damage. A Cornell University study of elementary schoolchildren found that about 40% of them were in danger of developing serious posture problems and the other 60% had conditions that were cause for concern. Says Professor Alan Hedge, who heads...