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...Cartagena, Colombia, a majority gave initial approval to two treaties that should help encourage cooperative action toward a cleanup. One of those pacts governs all types of pollution; the other deals specifically with oil spills. Negotiated under the auspices of the U.N. Environment Program, the treaties are relatively toothless declarations of good intent. But they have one notable aspect: the enthusiastic backing of such foes as the U.S. and Cuba, Honduras and Nicaragua. It is one of the rare times that the Reagan White House and Castro's Cuba have come to terms in an international agreement. Said Mostafa...
...home is supposed to be his castle. But his dungeon? Beginning this week, ten Albuquerque lawbreakers, instead of being sentenced to jail or to a toothless probation, are obliged to stay home every night. No police sentries are stationed outside, families are not required to snitch. Rather, confinement is enforced by remote control. Strapped to the ankle of each offender (mainly drunk drivers, all nonviolent adults on work-release) is a transmitter tuned in to a device on the home telephone. The phone in turn is connected to a computer downtown. It will monitor whether the electronically shack led prisoner...
...poet, the confrere of Yeats and Frost, whom he tellingly quotes. Now he is, in Fanny's words, "very gaga" and "deaf as an adder." He repeats questions that he has asked and answers questions that have not been asked. He guards his latest incoherent manuscript like a toothless lion and then flings it through the air Like a sheaf of errant snowflakes...
Nims offers himself as an old-fashioned lover of forms, both female and poetic. He bows gracefully to ottava rima, the sonnet and ballad. "Verse without rhyming was a toothless mouth," he insists at one point; elsewhere, he disguises his own bite with barely detectable assonances like "hankering" and "merry thing." He toys with words to tickle emotions. In "Dawn Song," a man gets up after a night of lovemaking and praise from his partner, and faces himself in the bathroom mirror...
...television networks and bookies say so, and neither at the moment acknowledges the National Hockey League. The New York Islanders recently won a record 15 games in a row without noticeably speeding up the nation's heartbeat. To Americans, hockey can appear an unfathomable melee of white, toothless Canadians padded like moonwalkers and armed to the gums with crooked sticks. Lately the perception of hockey as iced-over roller derby is more prevalent than ever, what with retired Philadelphia Flyer Dave Schultz (most penalty minutes alltime) regretting the hockey "enforcer's" life in his new memoirs...