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Any environmentalist can reel off a long list of grievous problems confronting the planet -- from acid rain and global warming to the destruction of tropical rain forests. The hard part is getting people to do something about them. Last week two fresh ideas for encouraging environmental activism were proposed, one...
The Chinese Communist Party took no chances last week when it staged its first press conference since last June's Tiananmen massacre. The 300 accredited Chinese and foreign journalists underwent a tight security check at the entrance to the Great Hall of the People. Inside the meeting room, those selected...
The televised media event on the eve of celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China was the most public step yet in the grooming of Jiang, 63, to succeed 85-year-old party patriarch Deng Xiaoping. When Jiang, the mayor of Shanghai...
Over the next few weeks she visited their house, saw the baby's room. There were phone calls and counseling sessions at the Independent Adoption Center in Pleasant Hill, Calif. In the private conference room there, Nicole felt happy with her choice. Still there were some delicate points to resolve...
No one actually knows how many babies are adopted in the U.S. each year. The Federal Government stopped keeping track in 1975, though it promises to start counting again by 1991. The best estimate -- from the National Committee for Adoption in Washington -- is that there were more than 60,000...