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...Japan furious competition among companies is the main force behind innovation, but government policies, in the form of strict antipollution laws and encouragement of technological research, are a big help. One of the government's latest initiatives is the New Earth 21 project, which is aimed at meeting the threat of global warming. As envisioned by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, it will promote two activities: the development of technologies designed to reduce production of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, and the sharing of those methods with developing countries. miti is financing an ambitious effort to generate...
...despite council and public support for the adoption of a new policy to replace the old ordinance, several panelists at Monday night's meeting warned the council that an ordinance which implemented strict quotas could encroach on individual liberties...
...substantially for those who won't work; drug treatment on demand; national service, the plan that offers a college education to those who will "pay" for it with a period of community service at below-market wages; apprenticeship training for those who don't want a university education; and strict child-support enforcement of the kind Clinton has introduced in Arkansas, where a father's Social Security number is entered < on birth certificates to ensure collections when Dads become deadbeats. And, adds Stephanopoulos, in an effort to be "smart as well as tough on crime," Clinton has been among...
...divided conscience. But on the ground, the confrontation had all the emotional subtlety of a tantrum and the animation of a trench-warfare standoff. It left Buffalo lost between two realities. On the television screen, the city served up all the passion and props that courtroom terms like "strict scrutiny" and "compelling interest" cannot deliver. In the Buffalo area, however, the clinics were not closed down, traffic was hardly disrupted, and citizens focused on the 28 homicides this year and the $70 million deficit projected for next. "This performance seems out of place, out of synch and out of time...
...When strict confessional differences are considered, the pull of Iranian- style fundamentalism appears to be greatly exaggerated. The overwhelming majority of Central Asian Muslims, including the ethnically Persian peoples of Tajikistan, follow the Sunni Islam observed in Saudi Arabia and most of the Muslim world. A true religious revival in Central Asia would probably produce an Islamic state more like Pakistan than Iran, which holds to the more extreme fundamentalist Shi'ite dogma...