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Tonight, the museums will also sponsor a Semiphore Dance Theatre production of "Kill Me Again," a play about the souls of people who have died of AIDS...
...people" -- the ultimate, perhaps, in expropriation. Conservative prelates of the Latin American Catholic bishops' conference (CELAM), which will meet in Santo Domingo in 1992, are pushing for an anniversary declaration that stresses the heroism of missionaries who tried to defend the Indians from conquistadorial cruelty. But CELAM will also sponsor a "people's tribunal" of minority representatives and leftist adherents of liberation theology, who propose to pass judgment on 500 years of European conquest...
Rahway is just one pocket of prison philanthropy. Across the country, inmates find ways, big and small, to escape the moral insulation of prison life. The scale of the effort varies from jail to jail: throughout Pennsylvania, prisoners sponsor statewide run-a-thons that through the years have collected nearly $89,000 for various youth programs. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, inmates sell pizza in the visiting room to raise $2,500 a year for residents of a juvenile home. At Soledad and San Quentin in California, inmates sort discarded eyeglasses to give to the poor. Female minimum-security inmates...
Weld also boasts a much stronger environmentalrecord. He favors secondary treatment for BostonHarbor and supporting the newly-created Cape CodCommission limiting development on Cape Cod. AndWeld is an original sponsor of recyclinglegislation that would require 50 percent of stateproducts be made of recycled materials over thenext six years...
...plethora of misleading disease- prevention claims on foods ranging from oat-bran doughnuts and cereals to cholesterol-free peanut butter and "lite" desserts. "For too long consumers who want a healthier diet have been besieged by inaccurate nutrition claims," said Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, the bill's chief sponsor in the Senate. Now, he added, "a bold health claim on the front of the package won't be contradicted by the fine print on the back...