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...existence," says a summary of the report, released Tuesday at an international conference in Jakarta. "Yet by our heedless actions we are eroding this biological capital at an alarming rate." TIME's Andrea Dorfman points out that the study is a result of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the pact signed by 160 countries at the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. "This new report represents an unprecedented number of scientists," says Dorfman, "The problem with biodiversity studies in the past is that they used too small a sample to yield significant results...
...impressive: a historic handshake across the Rhine between West Germany and France; the start of the Common Market and today's European Union; nuclear treaties between Washington and Moscow; America's rapprochement with China; the Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978 and the 1983 Israeli-Palestinian pact...
...second-guessing one of its own tenured faculty, the University is violating the sacred pact that has allowed ideas of all kinds to flourish for so many years. Even worse, the Medical School has set an unfortunate precedent for future episodes involving unorthodox professors. The incident raises some troubling questions that we should consider. Will future Medical School faculty and administrators appeal to this incident as a precedent for investigating others with opinions that are unconventional or politically incorrect? Will the Tosteson-Rehlman rationale be employed by deans in other faculties less restrained than Knowles to investigate the likes...
Ross Perot knows how to get the adrenaline of his followers flowing. Last fall, when Congress was considering a trade pact Perot despised, he threatened to form a new national party as punishment to the political establishment. When Congress approved GATT anyway, chapters of Perot's United We Stand America enthusiastically prepared for a fresh adventure with their hero. But the quest never got under way. Perot, to the chagrin of his fans and in an about-face reminiscent of his on-again, off-again, on-again 1992 presidential campaign, had come to the conclusion that it was quixotic. This...
...Jerry Zucker's skillful use of camera angles takes full advantage of the richness of color in the costumes and sets. One powerful scene gives a birds-eye view of the Round Table as Arthur and his knights, with synchronized fluidity, lay down their gleaming swords to reaffirm their pact of brotherhood...