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Optimism was the watchword as the spring fellows at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics (IOP) introduced themselves to about 100 people last night...
...Think Globally, Act Locally" was the watchword of environmental activism from its beginning in the '60s. That advice is as appropriate now as it was then. Just as the Green movement started more than two decades ago not with governments but at the grass roots, so today it is individuals who must occupy the front lines in protecting the environment. Over the years, droughts, energy crunches and garbage strikes have stimulated common-sense approaches to conserving resources and minimizing waste. It is time to begin applying these lessons in ordinary times as well as in emergencies...
...Germans marched into deserted Paris on June 14. Reynaud fled to England, leaving the government in the hands of Marshal Henri Petain, 84, who was still revered as the man who had defended Verdun during World War I under the watchword, "They shall not pass." But on June 17 he asked Hitler for an armistice. Hardly noticed in the debacle was an appeal from London one day later by an obscure French general named Charles de Gaulle, who, in a speech that was to become the rallying cry for the Resistance, asked all Frenchmen to fight on under his leadership...
...changes make sense. Among them: use electric blankets only to warm beds before retiring, place the electric alarm clock across the room instead of by the bed and sit at least ten feet away from the television set. Above all, avoid excessive worrying. Until the verdict is in, the watchword is prudence, not panic...
...many countries the spread of information about how the AIDS virus is transmitted has helped slow down the march of the disease among some groups. Gay communities around the world have made "safe sex" the watchword, and the use of condoms is up -- with dramatic results. From 1983 through 1985 in West Berlin, one-fourth of the homosexuals and bisexuals at a single clinic tested positive for the virus. In 1988 the figure had dropped below 10%. In San Francisco up to 5,000 people first tested positive for the virus in 1981; last year the number of newly discovered...