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...years, and Lithuania's Roman Catholics got their first full lineup of bishops in 40 years. A similar renewal is taking place among the 55 million Muslims, who constitute the world's fifth largest Islamic population (after Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India). By some estimates, ^ Muslims will make up one-fourth of Soviet citizens by the turn of the century...
...while debate continues over the merits of the new system, critics maintain that little will be changed in the house communities after randomly assigning one-fourth of the available space for the Class of '92 in eight houses...
...Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or ESOP, has rapidly come of age. Ten million U.S. workers, about one-fourth of all corporate employees, are enrolled in an ESOP, up from 3 million only a decade ago. More than 9,800 companies in the U.S. offer such programs, including 1,500 in which employees own the majority of the stock. By giving workers a stake in the company's success, enthusiasts say, the programs boost morale and productivity. But the popularity of ESOPs, which were initially created in the 1950s, has been fueled in the 1980s by an unintended and somewhat controversial...
...information about how the AIDS virus is transmitted has helped slow down the march of the disease among some groups. Gay communities around the world have made "safe sex" the watchword, and the use of condoms is up -- with dramatic results. From 1983 through 1985 in West Berlin, one-fourth of the homosexuals and bisexuals at a single clinic tested positive for the virus. In 1988 the figure had dropped below 10%. In San Francisco up to 5,000 people first tested positive for the virus in 1981; last year the number of newly discovered infections was down to about...
...grills of U.S. consumers. Because of studies linking health problems with a heavy diet of red meats, Americans have reduced their average consumption of beef since 1976 by 23%, from 94.4 lbs. to 72.5 lbs. a year. As a result, ranchers have already reduced their herds by about one-fourth...