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...Kabul's Malali High School for girls, the windows are broken, the desks are cracked, and posters on the wall warn of the dangers of land mines and unexploded bombs. But until last week, 500 girls still managed to study science, history, math and French in those crumbling classrooms despite a 4 1/2-year civil war raging around them. No longer. The war is just about over, and Kabul's new rulers, the Taliban, have firm notions about the peace: it will be piously, even pitilessly, Muslim. In that scheme there's no place for young women learning French...
...warn first-years that fulfilling the Core is trickier than it seems. Planning to meet requirements is well and good, but don't depend on being able to carry out your plans...
...Senate takes up the motion to override this week, both sides are poised for a fight. Pro-choice activists never miss a chance to warn their supporters about the risk of further restricting abortion--especially if the Republicans control Congress and Dole lands in the White House. The pro-life army sees the override fight as a chance to brandish pictures of dismembered infants only weeks before the election. "It's all a matter of timing," said a top Dole aide. "As the veto override gets closer, the church and Christian groups will get more involved. It's a sleeping...
...remains to this day. The Roman Catholic cleric would give no quarter to the murderers, either to the Hutu, who make up the majority of the country, or to his fellow Tutsi, who control the military. At a memorial for massacre victims last July, he declared, "Let me warn the killers and those who sent them: your crimes are the shame of humanity. And let me say to those who seek vengeance, if you too become a killer, God will curse you just as surely as he curses the others...
Science's advances have been accompanied by a heightened public awareness of the important role of life-style and environment. At least in the Western world, the combined scientific and government campaign to warn the public of the malign effects of tobacco smoking, for example, has caused millions of people to change long-ingrained habits. An intensive campaign to improve the quality of prenatal and obstetric care--and to get the word out to expectant mothers--has greatly cut infant-mortality rates. Improvements in emergency care, hospital methods and community safety standards have also done their part...