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Last week the Brazilian government sought to quell the outcry with an ambitious new environmental program. The plan, titled Our Nature, was announced by Sarney during a full-dress ceremony at Brasilia's Planalto Palace. To a chorus of applause from Brazil's top military brass and nine state governors, Sarney outlined a program that would be set into motion by 35 new decrees and proposed laws. Among other things, the plan calls...
...habitats of caribou, musk-oxen, polar bears, golden eagles and wolves. For evidence to back their argument, the preservationists point to Prudhoe Bay. The weight of trucks atop temporary roads has cut into the mat of vegetation that makes up the tundra, allowing sunlight to weaken the top layer of permafrost beneath. The result: ever deepening ruts that erode into gullies. And oily wastes have leached out of supposedly secure dumps. The consequences of the contamination are unclear, but some scientists believe that since the permafrost confines biological activity to a layer of ^ earth just a couple of feet thick...
...WINTER'S TALE. Mandy Patinkin, Christopher Reeve, Alfre Woodard and Diane Venora top an impressive if imperfect off-Broadway version of Shakespeare's fable...
...Soviet Union is scaling back its cold war commitments overseas in favor of a more pragmatic, diplomatic -- and potentially more successful -- drive to expand its influence abroad. The Soviets are moving in more subtle ways than of old to position themselves advantageously. The retrenchment from overt aggression, said a top adviser to President George Bush last week, discloses "a foreign policy of necessity designed to provide breathing space." But this necessity has bred a virtue: the plaudits for Moscow's policy shifts have led to an overall advance of the Gorbachev cause overseas. It is, of course, domestic imperatives that...
...cards mailed to him by fans and sending them back in postpaid envelopes. He was joined by Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola, who pitched a 24-7 season last year. The chain link fence is some eight feet high, so kids tossed their books and balls over the top. After signing, the players threw the objects back over the fence, in one of Viola's favorite spring rituals. "I was a shy kid," remembers the Long Island native, "so I had my mom ask for Rick Barry's autograph at a Nets game once. He refused. So I take...