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...Midwest, 5,000 Americans are marching together for disarmament. The huge procession, which set out from Los Angeles for Washington on March 1, treks across the flatlands pursued by television cameras, supply trucks and spectators. At the same time, another awesome spectacle is taking shape: from one coast to the other, people are lining up side by side and clasping hands to form a huge human chain against hunger...
...than 20 million people of Tanzania, the nation he founded, Julius Kambarage Nyerere, 63, is best known simply as Mwalimu, Ki-swahili for "teacher." Although he has failed during his 24 years in power to create the prosperous, egalitarian society that he once envisioned, his policies will continue to shape the country--and the continent--for decades. This month Nyerere is scheduled to become one of the few African rulers ever to relinquish power voluntarily...
...adopt a new name. A contest is being held among the firm's 980 employees to suggest the best alternative. The winner will be given $5,000. AID executives have not decided how to modify the firm's logo. Says Evans: "The color might stay the same. The shape might stay the same. It's just that awful word...
Along the corridors of Harvard Law School, professors still refer to one another as "colleagues," but the atmosphere of late seems something less than collegial. An intellectual debate has sharpened into a feud about the shape of legal education and the legitimacy of the law itself. On one side stand the adherents of Critical Legal Studies, who charge that the American legal system and its supposedly disinterested rules are prime instruments of social injustice. On the other side are more traditional professors who contend that the faculty "crits" are waging "guerrilla warfare" at the law school. For Dean James Vorenberg...
...standard medical inquiries, the form asks about such stressful experiences as divorce and job changes, even whether the employee carries a gun. Based on the responses, workers are assigned a "health age." If it is more than two years above their actual age, they have three years to shape up or lose the extra 5% reimbursement. In Bellevue, Wash., city workers gain "points" according to the cost of their health insurance. They lose a point for each dollar received in medical claims, and the value of the points (currently 9¢) goes up as the number of claims filed...