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Doctors around the world certainly did. Thousands of physicians had convened that month at a medical congress in Rio de Janeiro, and most of them signed a petition demanding that the French government reverse Roussel's decision. Within 48 hours, Health Minister Claude Evin declared that once government approval had been granted, "RU 486 became the moral property of women," and he ordered Roussel to resume distribution. In 1989 RU 486 was made available to all licensed abortion clinics and hospitals in France. The results proved encouraging, save for a freak incident in 1991 when a woman...
...concept refined over two decades at international conferences. It is often paired with "sustainable development" -- the notion that economic development, if carried out in a careful manner, can proceed without exhausting the natural resources needed by future generations. As recently as last June during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, governments tried to forge an action agenda based on sustainable development...
...supported him so wholeheartedly during the presidential campaign. When the speech was over, you could almost hear the environmentalists heave a communal sign of relief: their new President showed he really does have a green streak. Reversing a stand that Bush took at last year's Earth Summit in Rio, Clinton declared that the U.S. would sign an international treaty to protect the diversity of living species. And the President followed through on a pledge that briefly seemed in jeopardy: he committed the U.S. to a specific timetable for curbing the release of carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse...
Sanchez, who focuses his writings largely on Puerto Rican culture and cultural history, is best known for his 1976 novel La Gauaracha de Macho Camacho (Macho Camacho's Beat). He teaches one semester at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras and one semester at CUNY each year
Unlike dolphins, sea lions seem to treat training as if it were a life-or- death matter. At the start of each session Rio rivets her stare on her trainers. When wrong, she barks in frustration. But on one particular day she had little to complain about, answering correctly 24 out of 28 times. Schusterman takes this performance as proof that the animal has at least some of the cognitive skills required for language. Thus, he says, it is now much easier for him to accept that bigger-brained dolphins and apes understand and manipulate their vocabularies symbolically as well...