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...importance of this career office to the school population. More than 900 students, almost 60 percent of the student body, signed a petition last month asking for the restoration of the office. This reaction is all the more impressive when compared with the protests against tenure decisions in recent years, which mobilized only a small minority of the students...
Clark should immediately appoint the members of his new advisory committee so they can begin to review the situation. He should encourage this committee to seek new ways to help students and recent graduates make the transition to public-interest...
Just the week before, Japan declared a total ban on ivory imports. The country's ivory carvers have traditionally been the most avid consumers of tusks taken from African elephants. But in recent years, concerned that the rapid depletion of elephant herds could mean the end of their ancient trade, the carvers have agreed to ever tightening import restrictions. Now Tokyo has decided to halt all shipments indefinitely and let the carvers work from ivory stockpiles...
...development. In an attempt to defuse the cost crisis, the company said last week that it will cut the wholesale price of AZT 20%, to $1.20 a pill. One reason the company is able to do so is that the potential market for the drug has grown substantially in recent weeks with the discovery that AZT can help a far larger group. A Government study released in August concluded that the drug, besides helping people who have AIDS, can also postpone the appearance of the disease in people who are infected by the AIDS virus...
...quell the disturbances. More than 400 people, most of them Iranians, died during the violent clashes, leading to a break in diplomatic relations between the two countries the following year. Last week the Saudis demonstrated their resolve to punish disrupters of the hajj. In the largest public execution in recent years, swordsmen in Mecca publicly beheaded 16 Kuwaiti citizens for detonating bombs in Mecca last July...