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Reproductive Services, which operates abortion clinics in six cities in Texas and one in Oklahoma, has teamed up with Adoption Affiliates, a newly founded child-placement agency, to offer both services under one roof. The San Antonio clinic and its affiliates are counseling a dozen pregnant women who may give up their infants for adoption. Previously the clinic was turning away two or more women a week who were ineligible for abortions...
...assume the boycott has had some effect, butit's hard to say how much. It doesn't affect theoverall interviewing patterns of our students,"said June Thompson, a staff member at the LawSchool Placement Office...
...calls its fruit the "original health food" and asserts that the natural fiber in apples is an appetite suppressor. The Potato Board is pushing its vegetable as "multivitamins with minerals." Even the Sugar Association has something positive to stress: the sweetener's low 16 calories a teaspoon and its placement on the Food and Drug Administration's "safe" list, a claim artificial alternatives cannot make. "Which would you rather put on your kids' cereal...
...considered getting a headstart on studying for placement exams or classes, but changed his mind, he says. "I knew Harvard was going to be so dynamic, I needed some stillness for a little bit before I ventured off." And stillness, he--and others who chose to spend a quiet summer...
...chief of Hearst newspapers and one of the founder's two surviving sons, contributes a weekly conservative diatribe to the company's papers, but his involvement is otherwise sporadic; he has been known to phone editors late in the evening to complain about an editorial cartoon or the placement of an ad. What makes the relatively minor role of the Hearstlings in running the shop so intriguing is that they own the store. The family trust holds 100% of the stock, and dividends are distributed only to relatives. Yet only five of the trust's 13 directors are family members...