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Many foreign countries began to discover environmental problems. Russia, Sweden and New Zealand banned DDT. The Japanese in particular were enraged by the effects of forced-draft industrialization on their lovely country. After 48 schoolchildren were felled by photochemical smog in Tokyo last summer, kogai (environmental disruption) became the nation's top issue. Last week Japan's Diet responded by enacting 14 tough new laws aimed at sending big polluters to prison...
Basic concepts are taught in a classroom brainstorming session called "Rescue in Space." The schoolchildren divide into two groups: eight astronauts going to Mars in two spaceships, plus ground-control crews responsible for the ships' air, water, food and living space. Once on Mars, one spacecraft breaks down. Given certain limitations, which the teacher reads from the kit's list, the challenge is to create and debate practical ways of bringing all the astronauts safely back in the closed ecological system of a single cramped spaceship...
AFTER more than two decades of Communist rule, regimented pageantry has become China's highest art. To celebrate national holidays, the government often marshals tens and even hundreds of thousands of evenly spaced banner carriers and flag wavers. Schoolchildren throughout the country regularly practice precision marching (often with wooden guns), and even China's productive labor is sometimes carried out in a manner resembling close-order drill. Whatever the occasion, there is one standardized piece of equipment for China's nearly 800 million people-a copy of the little red book containing Quotations from Chairman...
...More Milk. Of greatest interest to the average Briton is a slash in social services. There will be no more free milk to schoolchildren above age seven. Subsidies for school lunches and for milk for families on welfare will also end. Prescription charges will increase from 30? to 48?. Patients who now pay only a flat $4.20 fee for any amount of dental treatment will be charged half of actual cost. Not wanting to seem entirely heartless, the Tories proposed a family income supplements bill that provides $1,872 a year for poor families with one child. That bill could...
...applied to Southern districts with plans like that of Mobile, Ala., the third district at issue before the court. In that city, blacks have appealed a lower-court ruling that Mobile's current steps toward integration are "reasonable"-even though blacks calculate that two-thirds of their elementary schoolchildren in metropolitan Mobile are still in all-black schools. The principles on which the lower court based its decision were defended by U.S. Solicitor General Erwin Griswold, who appeared as a friend of the court to explain the Nixon Administration's hostility toward busing and its sympathy for neighborhood...