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During the past 25 years, the United States has been superficially critical, but also tacitly approving, of the current South African government, the two members of a Bunting Institute symposium on U.S. policy toward South Africa agreed last night in a discussion with 15 people...
...skull and steel-rimmed spectacles give him a remarkable resemblance to Telly Savalas playing Kojak. On one of his periodic forays to the U.S., a week ago, Foucault appeared in the brick-and-glass Davidson Conference Center of the University of Southern California to participate in a three-day symposium on himself. As usual the hall overflowed with students and professors trying to unravel the mysteries of "panoptic discourse," "bio-power" and other matters raised in Foucault's intricately argued and opaquely written works. "Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain...
...John D. Spengler, in a paper presented at the symposium, found no correlation between measured nitrogen dioxide levels and lung function. "This is not conclusive, as it was based on a small sample size," Sexton said, adding also that it did not preclude the possibility that short-term, "peak exposures" to the gas might be harmful...
...Research Administrator at the Kennedy School's Energy and Environmental Policy Center, said that this contrasts sharply with Scandinavian countries where the government plays "a large role in public policy regulation." The Scandinavian countries, more advanced than the United States in indoor pollution study, were heavily represented at the symposium...
...first symposium of this kind took place in 1978 in Copenhagen, and Curhan said the "great success" of the second insures there will be more in the years to come...