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...likely to "tune them down." Says Tribe: "Americans have been accustomed to the idea that the Supreme Court is a refuge for the disadvantaged, the dispossessed and the dissident. We are entering an era in which increasingly the court will be less a court of last resort." One result is that many would-be federal lawsuits will be filed in more liberal state courts; another is that legal disputes may be translated into political battles, to be fought in the corridors of state legislatures and the halls of Congress...
...flanks of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, an instrument that records the concentration of carbon dioxide dumped into the atmosphere as a result of all this activity traces a wobbly rising line that gets steeper and steeper with time. Sometime in the next 50 years, say climatologists, all that carbon dioxide, trapping the sun's heat like a greenhouse, could begin to smother the planet, raising temperatures, turning farmland to desert, swelling oceans anywhere from four feet to 20 feet. Goodbye Venice, goodbye Bangladesh. Goodbye to millions of species of animals, insects and plants that haven't already succumbed to acid...
...refuse to relinquish them fully. Although federal law mandates that a child whose mother shows no inclination to plan for his or her future within 18 months should be made available for adoption, an absentee parent can thwart such attempts by just minimal contact during those 18 months. Result: of the estimated 276,000 children in foster care in 1986, the last year for which statistics are available, perhaps just 13% were immediately available for adoption...
...recently as 1983, only eight states allowed full-time staff teachers to be hired without an undergraduate degree in education or classroom experience. Now 23 states have eased training and certification requirements, considered by many to be the most formidable and unnecessary barrier to attracting teaching talent. The result has been an influx of military retirees and career switchers from other professions -- some 2,500 in all during the 1987-88 school year. These recruits have helped reduce teacher shortages and have reinvigorated the classroom. Last spring Bush proposed $25 million in grants to encourage other states to follow suit...
...forms during the next twelve months. The annual quota set by Washington, however, will provide no more than 50,000 with refugee visas -- a 25% increase over last year -- and an additional 30,000 with "parole" status, permission to come to the U.S. but with no financial assistance. Result: the U.S., after demanding for years that the U.S.S.R. loosen its emigration laws, will turn away more than 200,000 Soviet emigres...