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...publicizing the advantages that parochial schools can offer, the church hopes to help a good system thrive once again. In the process, by increasing a sense of competition for students and an awareness of the value of a rigorous education, the campaign could even serve to spur the nation's public schools...
...county, 35 miles south of Chicago, prevailed in an intense 15-month bidding contest against 20 other sites in Illinois and neighboring Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin. Will County won by building a $300,000 road, finding $150,000 in state funds for a training program, extending a railroad spur to the plant's back door, negotiating with the owner of the 37-acre site to drop its price, and even renaming its county highway for Coilplus...
...Congress, which had lobbied hard to keep sanctions intact. Said Congress spokesperson Gill Marcus: "We still have a long way to go before apartheid is scrapped." Government-sponsored laws tearing down most racial restrictions, however, are expected to be approved by Parliament this June, and their passage will probably spur the U.S. to reconsider its own sanctions against South Africa...
...hopes its expose will spur China and Taiwan, which has strict regulations that are rarely applied, to greater enforcement of their laws. The report recommends a crackdown on hunters and more funds for enforcement. But even if the governments commit themselves, it could be centuries before the animal populations recover from what has already been done. "It will take 400 to 500 years before any headway is really made," says Hu Jinchu, an expert on pandas at the Nanchong Normal College in Sichuan. "We've wrested too much from nature...
...only military. Diplomatic experts warned that a provocation of Saddam could only lead to attacks on Israel, which undoubtedly would spark reprisals and perhaps an Arab-Israeli war. This would splinter Bush's fragile coalition (if only for reasons of domestic dissent within Arab members of the coalition) and spur Arab support for Saddam Hussein...