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...Easter Bunny at the White House egg roll? Was she a Munchkin? If so, did that mean the President was the Wizard of Oz? Was his daughter, who was brought into the fray, in any way like a 600-pound gorilla? And where was Ursula Meese? Such was the level of debate last week over the Administration's approach to ending discrimination against women...
...effects of the recession. With inflation down, Thatcher is expected to take more risks to protect the recovery. To improve British competitiveness in world markets, Brittan expected the government to encourage a fall in interest rates, as it did last week, in order to slow the rise of the pound on currency markets. Brittan said that a prolonged recovery will above all depend on keeping wage increases under control during the next few months...
This year, as part of the animal research protests a "dog pound seizer" bill was introduced and only narrowly defeated in the state legislature. On other fronts a statewide referendum passed which will curb nuclear waste disposal and, some scientists fear biomedical research which generates such waste as a by product. A city referendum will appear on the November ballot to ban nuclear development and research in Cambridge...
...repeatedly introduced legislation to limit such research. But last year the bill made the most progress, passing the state House of Representatives before getting lost in the shuffle of the Senate, and it officially died when the session ended. The specific vehicle is the attempt to repeal the "dog pound seizure act," in order to deny researchers access to captured canines and force them to purchase the more expensive lab-bred type. Harvard uses about 2500 pound dogs a year and professors say the measure would make the current level of research prohibitive by boosting animal prices tenfold. It might...
Proponents of the bill say that most pound animals are pets, and that the lab life is too cruel Scientists respond that most of these animals are strays, and that the pound death they face--gassing--is much crueler than vivisection...