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...remark. She called Friedan, who told her that she had got her statistics from the Small Business Administration. "When the SBA verified that women were in fact the most dynamic portion of the small- business community," says Whitaker, "I knew I was on to a good story." The result: this week's special report on women entrepreneurs, who these days are running everything from fashion conglomerates to asphalt-paving firms...
...Discovery mission is successful, the NASA schedule will then call for nine flights next year and another nine in 1990. One hitch: there may not be enough solid rocket fuel. The shortage, which will begin next year, is the result of a series of explosions in early May that destroyed a Nevada plant that produced about 50% of the nation's ammonium perchlorate. The compound constitutes about 70% of the solid fuel used in the shuttle boosters...
...greenhouse effect has already begun. During the first five months of 1988, he said, average worldwide temperatures were the highest in the 130 years that records have been kept. Moreover, Hansen continued, he - is 99% certain that the higher temperatures are not just a natural phenomenon but the result of a buildup of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other gases from man- made sources, mainly pollution from power plants and automobiles. Said Hansen: "It is time to stop waffling and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here...
...change came as a result of grass-roots pressure for an abortion stance that better reflected the diverse opinions of American Baptists, who include many conservatives along with more liberal members. It is a pressure being felt by other mainline denominations, a vaguely defined group of predominantly white, moderate-to-liberal churches accounting for about 25 million of America's 75 million Protestants. "The mood is swinging toward a real serious look at a new abortion position," says Louisa Rucker, executive director of the National Organization of Episcopalians for Life...
...high school graduate, Farrar went to work in 1972, once all the children were in school, as a bookkeeper for a local steel contractor. Before long, she was supervising fieldwork as well. In 1978, with just $500 in savings, she started her own steel-contracting firm, Systems Erectors. Result: her children are getting all the education they want. Farrar's company racked up $5 million in sales last year. Says she: "There is nothing special about me. I had no family members in the business, little formal education, no business training, no money, no genius...