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...drop-in children's center is so new a concept that no common name yet exists to describe such a facility. Its purpose, though, is perfectly clear to grateful employees: the center provides expert child care when an unexpected need arises. The 2,200-sq.-ft. center can handle up to 30 youngsters between the ages of 6 months and 12 years. Why an emergency facility instead of a full-time day-care center? "We can serve thousands of our employees, instead of just a small number," explains Karol Rose, director of Work/Family Initiatives and Training for Time Warner...
History cannot be reversed, but historic change seems to be in the making. In Canada the commitment to native self-determination followed another major step: the creation of a self-governing entity called Nunavut out of the vast Northwest Territories, effectively turning a fifth of Canada's 4 million-sq.- mi. territory over to 17,500 Inuit. In the province of Quebec, persistent agitation by 10,000 Inuit and Cree Indians against the second phase of an $11 billion hydroelectric project at James Bay, which would flood thousands more acres of Indian and Inuit lands, has placed the enterprise...
...became Chancellor in 1969, West Germany still refused to recognize the postwar boundaries in Eastern Europe or admit that Germany would remain divided for the foreseeable future. Brandt swiftly changed much of that, signing nonaggression pacts with the U.S.S.R. and Poland in 1970 and ^ renouncing claims to 40,000 sq. mi. of former German territory incorporated into Poland. He also signed a treaty in 1972 to normalize relations between West and East Germany, reversing the Bonn government's immediate postwar policy of ignoring and isolating its Communist rival to achieve unification through attrition. In the end, Brandt's more compassionate...
Miller, the nation's foremost champion of hot cuisine, is conducting his experiment in the sculpted dining room of Red Sage, his $5.2 million, 18,800- sq.-ft. Western-style restaurant in Washington. Red Sage, which opened in January and is already booked weeks in advance, is an updated, upscale evocation of the American West rendered in buttery leather banquettes, panoramic murals and buffalo-motif chandeliers. In the street-level bar, cocktails are served with swizzle sticks that look like barbed wire, while on the ceiling a canopy of white plaster clouds floats across a starry night sky. "The world...
Also competing for funds is the Kodiak Restoration Committee, a partnership of native groups, fishermen, businesses and government agencies in the Kodiak Island Borough, a 51,800-sq-km (20,000 sq. mi.) district at the southernmost point of the Valdez spill zone. While the borough's wildlife escaped serious damage, its all-important fishing industry suffered mightily. "Domestic violence and divorces soared, and visits to mental-health services almost doubled," says borough Mayor Jerome Selby. "We're never going to be able to mend the social fabric of the community." The borough wants $280 million to create nature preserves...