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While a senior Pentagon official suggests that a seepage of up to 20% would be "normal for that area," he challenges the 50% figure. "I just don't believe it," he says. "It's all out of proportion to anything we've seen." By contrast, Washington Lobbyist Andrew Eiva, executive director of the Federation for American Afghan Action, says that his organization has found "up to 70% slippage" in CIA supplies. New Hampshire Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey, who heads the congressional caucus on Afghanistan, contends that the Administration simply does not know the extent of the leakage...
...number of problems during pregnancy, says Dr. John Niles of Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington: "Teenagers are 92% more likely to have anemia, and 23% more likely to have complications related to prematurity, than mothers aged 20 to 24." All of this adds up to twice the normal risk of delivering a low-birth-weight baby (one that weighs under 5.5 lbs.), a category that puts an infant in danger of serious mental, physical and developmental problems that may require costly and possibly even lifelong medical care...
...explain this skittishness? "We are still very much governed by our puritanical heritage," answers Faye Wattleton, president of the New York-based Planned Parenthood Federation. "While European societies have chosen to recognize sexual development as a normal part of human development, we have chosen to repress it. At the same time, we behave as if we're not repressing it." In studying various cultures, the Guttmacher researchers found that the highest teen-pregnancy rates were in countries with the least open attitudes toward sex. "The ambivalence our society is projecting about sex is costing us a lot," concludes Institute President...
...world's largest pig population, though many are scrawny beasts quite unlike the corn-fattened hogs of Iowa or Nebraska). The biggest payoff of all: Vaclav Smil, a Canadian geographer, calculates that in China, "today's diets appear to supply, on the average, enough energy and protein for normal growth and healthy life." In a country that has been racked by periodic famines throughout four millenniums of recorded history, the average citizen has, finally, enough...
...South Lebanon Army, which protects the security zone along the Israeli-Lebanese border. The current drive began late last month, when guerrillas backed by Syria and Iran launched the most concerted barrage of Katyusha rockets against northern Israel since 1982. Warned Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin: "If normal life is not permitted to go on in northern Israel, there will be no normal life in southern Lebanon--if there will be any life...