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...death of Ken Saro Wiwa together with eight other minority-right activists is part of the wider Nigerian crisis in which the military government continues to resist a transition to civilian rule and to a democratic government. Saro Wiwa himself described the present Nigerian leaders as "mindless, stone-age dictators, addicted to blood . . . They are daylight robbers who kill for money...
...also the rising costs of paper and postage this year. L.L. Bean, which experienced a $25 million jump in such expenses, will launch television commercials for the first time in its 83-year history this Christmas to help promote its 800 number. Rival catalog giant Lands' End plans to resist the industry price-cutting trend by holding its prices level with those of last year and offering extras such as free gift boxes and monograms. Says Lands' End president Michael Smith: "If you're selling computers or electronics, you're doing very well this year. The price cutting on everything...
...that it's clear they hate us, it's O.K. for us to hate them." Glenn Loury, a conservative black thinker and Boston University professor, says, "Farrakhan makes it more respectable for white racism to flourish." That is a cop-out both blacks and whites must work to resist. "The threat to American democracy is not black racism," Loury says. "It's white racism...
...will be a tough sell. As Dr. Ram Yogev of Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago points out, the Sabin vaccine worked so well that health workers may resist the change. Says Dr. Yogev, who favors the change himself: "Physicians respect Salk. But we love Sabin because we saw the epidemic. We were a part of it, and suddenly it disappeared...
...right when it says we're not comfortable with concepts like character, heart and morality. It is our moral nature that makes us human. To the degree that we are true to that moral sense, we are intelligent and have the great emotional skills discussed. To the degree we resist it, we are conflicted and wrapped up in the negative emotions. And, no, dear scientific colleagues, all behavior is not reducible to biology. DAVID DUERDEN Family Science Department Ricks College Rexburg, Idaho...