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Levels of corporate debt tend to ebb and flow in a cyclical pattern. For the + moment, leverage is out of style. "Companies may have learned a valuable lesson," says William Rifkin, a managing director at Salomon Brothers, "but they're doomed to repeat the same mistakes in another 20 years." Maybe so, but that means the business managers who have survived the debt swamp will be unwilling to return to it until well into the next century...
Johnson's appeal is expected to be heard no later than April. There is a good chance that Judge Parslow's decision will not stand. "After all, the state law in California says that the birth mother is the mother," points out Jeremy Rifkin, ecological gadfly and co-chairman of the National Coalition Against Surrogacy, a group that has successfully lobbied in most of the 13 states that have laws banning commercial surrogacy...
...distantly recalls Miro. Cadillac/Chopsticks, 1975, is just what it says: the rear-half profile of a '60s Caddy, bulbous with fins, and in the lower right a red X depicting a pair of chopsticks. Nothing else. One is not much helped by the otherwise useful catalog essay of Ned Rifkin, to whom, it seems, Moskowitz "revealed that the Cadillac might represent Hollywood glamour and the car culture of the West Coast, while the chopsticks could allude to a New Yorker's love of Chinese food." No kidding. This, you could say, looks like art history...
...individual and the environment. And his call for closer public scrutiny of scientific deliberations is laudable, although perhaps impractical in a society where so few laymen have enough technical knowledge to comprehend what the experts are really doing. But there is good reason to question the fairness of Rifkin's angriest assaults on scientists as mad magicians and unethical disciples of Dr. Strangelove. When Rifkin is most successful, he may slow basic research, delay a medical advance, perhaps even damage the economy. Still, it is a small price to pay for the prudent utilization of the powers of science...
Maybe longer. Rifkin, 44, enjoys most the college lectures that often have him flying two to four times a week. One recent swing took the Rifkin show to Alfred University in upstate New York. As usual, he charmed and joked, provoked and pleased. He lectured the freshman class about the need for activism at a time of environmental crisis brought about by misguided values. Afterward, dozens of students remained in the gymnasium to form an environmental action group. Leaving the hall, Rifkin looked back over his shoulder and said to a companion that these were the children of the antiwar...