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...Mexicans have nothing to lose but their pounds. In the nation's first statewide diet, 10,000 residents have joined a program to lose at least five pounds each by March 29. The project, Eat Right New Mexico, is sponsored by HealthNet, a nonprofit organization that has launched a ten-year effort to change local eating and exercise habits. After the first week of weigh-ins at schools, supermarkets and Indian reservations, the dieters have found that misery loves company. Notes Geraldine Bolton, 58, of Albuquerque: "The program gives me an incentive to lose weight. It's always easier when...
...never went. These days Guerra, 32, is putting in time instead of doing it, by logging 400 hours over 2 1/2 years as a fund raiser and volunteer for Arts for People, a nonprofit group that provides artists and entertainers for the critically ill at Dallas-area hospitals and institutions. His sentence, which also includes a $15,000 fine, means that a prison system full to bursting need not make room for one more. He sees a benefit to the community too. "I just love the job," he says. "I'll probably continue it after the sentence...
...alternative schemes look to the day when prison cells will be reserved exclusively for career criminals and the violent, with extramural penalties held out for the wayward of every other variety. "We're all against crime," says Herbert Hoelter, director of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, a nonprofit group that designed Guerra's package of penalties and persuaded the judge in his case to accept them. "But we need to convince people that there are other ways to get justice...
...that an unregulated black-market trade will flourish. But if the practice is to be permitted, in what form should it survive? Fearing that conception, the most intimate of functions, might become one more branch of private enterprise, some experts want surrogacy to be conducted like adoption, mostly through nonprofit agencies. "I do not think people should be gestating babies for money," says Arthur Caplan, director of the Bio-Medical Ethics Center at the University of Minnesota. "Entrepreneurs who come into the business are not being screened...
Channell dismissed as fantasy the notion that his four conservative groups--his nonprofit National Foundation For the Preservation of Liberty, his two affiliated political action committees or Sentinel, his lobbying group--got any such money...