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...crucial to human health. UV rays can make the lens of the eye cloud up with cataracts, which bring on blindness if untreated. The radiation can cause mutations in DNA, leading to skin cancers, including the often deadly melanoma. Estimates released last week by the United Nations Environment Program predict a 26% rise in the incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancers worldwide if overall ozone levels drop...
...even capable of assessing people's private characters with enough skill to predict their public behavior, when we've never encountered these politicians outside the public domain...
...predict how people will react to it," Rosenbury added. "A lot of people are satisfied with using [male] condoms as a method of birth control and of protection, and people are resistant to change. But it is innovative and people like to try things at least once...
Such decisions promise to make the coming decade the most difficult ever faced by America's institutions of higher learning. By the year 2000, many educators predict, the country will have leaner universities and a smaller system of higher education. But that may be appropriate. In the past 20 years, too many colleges overbuilt, too many aspired to do too much, and as a result, too many are competing frantically -- and wastefully -- for the same students. "We need more community colleges and fewer research universities," observes Duffey of American University, "and there should be more liberal- arts schools focusing...
...defendants in homicides or assaults are acquitted on the ground of mental illness. Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley's plea was accepted, but insanity claims by Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi and mass murderer John Wayne Gacy were rebuffed. Experts predict Dahmer's bid will fail as well. "There is a point at which crimes reach such a magnitude that people don't care why someone did something," observes San Diego criminal attorney John Cotsirilos...