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...health services have also made available safer sex kits containing informative booklets, a rubber dam, lubricant and a condom. During the rest of the year, "We make condoms available at no cost and those are going like hotcakes," she adds...
Staging a play at the Adams House swimming pool is a clever idea, though the lighting there is so bad that it is difficult to see even the actors' facial expressions. The actors do get to jump in the pool occasionally and thrash about on innertubes and rubber rafts. Its mildly amusing, as is the production's Joan Crawford-sized obsession with coat hangers...
...1980s has been discouraging. Its share of world exports slipped from 12% in 1980 to 11% last year, while most other industrial countries made gains. The share held by the least developed countries fell sharply, generally because of plunging world prices for commodities ranging from oil to rubber...
Amidst the academic clutter of the labs, humans' decorations are interspersed with bags of monkey chow, manuscripts of journal articles, and cases of rubber gloves. One receptionist's cubicle seems to be a normal office, except for the battling stenches of disinfectant and monkey dung. And down the hall, a researcher's door bears the sober proverb, "Mortui Vivos Docent...
Even in Hungary, the most reform-minded country in the Soviet bloc, a few cornerstones of Communism had long seemed inviolable. One was the absence of that onerous capitalist tool, income tax. Another was the rubber-stamping role of the Parliament in a system controlled by the Communist Party. By last week, all that had changed. In an unprecedented session in Budapest's Chamber of Deputies, impassioned legislators demanded, and often won, amendments to a controversial package of sweeping economic policies. At the core of the new legislation: Eastern Europe's first major personal income and value-added taxes. Said...