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...Puerto Rico's legislature is likely to vote tomorrow to authorize a plebiscite on future relations with the U.S. Faced with three options -- statehood, independence or a continuation of commonwealth status -- Governor Pedro Rossello and congressional Democrats are enthusiastic supporters of fully joining the union. But Republican concerns over adding a state that's likely to vote Democrat mean that we probably won't be adding a 51st star anytime soon...
...Personal Electro-Sauna was sold via Hispanic television channels throughout the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico by a company going by the names of Body Fitness Inc. and the TV Store Corp. The FDA, which only learned of the problem when a fire department reported of some suspicious apartment blazes, hastened to point out that it had not approved the product...
...charges that it pumped oil-contaminated bilge water into the ocean and tried to cover up its misdeeds for several years by lying to investigators and falsifying records. The company will pay a $9 million fine, $1 million of which is earmarked for conservation projects in Florida and Puerto Rico. It also promised not to do it again...
...Sanchez album, Obsesion, is more of an ensemble piece. As a player, he seems most excited by rhythmic ideas; the tunes are Latin standards from Puerto Rico, Cuba and Brazil, and Sanchez delights in reversing field on them, turning a gentle Antonio Carlos Jobim song, for instance, into a rowdy Caribbean parade. The album really soars when the accompanying 10-piece orchestra forgoes modest backing and muscles its way into the dance along with the congas. It's the kind of witty arranging that could give strings a good name...
...While some cheered the outcome, there was unease about using an anti-mob law to fight abortion activists. ?Everybody who loves the First Amendment has got to sleep uneasily tonight,? said G. Robert Blakely, the Notre Dame professor who drafted RICO for the Nixon administration back in 1970. But for Susan Hill, president of the Chicago abortion clinics, the ends justified the means. ?I feel safer than I did yesterday,? she said. In the end, RICO may be remembered as the tool that allowed the two sides of America?s hottest debate to respectfully disagree...