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Patricia Williams, professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, agrees that an underlying problem in protecting victims of sexual harassment is society's unwillingness to treat this kind of harassment as a serious issue...
Gary T. Marx, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in privacy issues, even wants Congress to establish a royalty system to compensate individuals -- or consumers en masse -- whenever personal information about them is sold. "If we are to treat personal information as a commodity," he wrote recently, "it seems only fair that those to whom it pertains ought to control it and share in financial gain from its sale...
This type of north-south bargain is also what the Rio conference should be all about. But while the U.S. seems to treat Rio's emerging suite of agreements as a threat, other industrial nations see the Earth Summit as an opportunity. MITI, Japan's powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry, is developing a 100-year plan to make Japan dominant in eco- technologies; Tokyo is also said to be pondering ways to become the world leader in environmental reform...
...clamminess and poor concentration disappeared immediately when I gave up caffeine, and I discovered that fear of bill collectors is an adequate late-night stimulant. This first dip into the waters of alternative health left me open to the suggestion, a few years later, that I try chiropractic to treat my persistent lower-back pain. "Go see Christoph," said one of my regular squash opponents. "He'll give you a line of Eastern philosophy, but he knows bones." Since I dreaded the doctor-recommended alternative of heavy pain- killers and two weeks of immobilization, I decided to risk...
Some of the fiercest controversy has come over what role Russia should play in a new union of the republics. Vice President Rutskoi denounced the new economic treaty as "banditry" that would allow the other republics to treat Russia as a "milch cow," then changed his mind when Ukraine pulled out. Burbulis has insisted that Russia should proclaim itself the "successor state" to the old Soviet Union and take over the institutions of central government. That has only intensified other republics' fear of being swallowed up into a new Russian empire...