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...past denunciations of the U.S. and instead called for "a productive dialogue with the developed world" on "protection of the environment." As if heeding that appeal, on Sept. 11, at an international environmental conference in Tokyo, Japan's new Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu affirmed a pledge that his country would offer $2.25 billion to tackle pollution in the Third World...
William Ruckelshaus, former administrator of the EPA and now chief executive officer of Browning-Ferris Industries, a major waste-management firm, believes a historical watershed is at hand. If the industrialized and developing countries did everything they should, he says, the resulting change would represent "a modification of society comparable in scale to the agricultural revolution of the late Neolithic age and to the Industrial Revolution of the + past two centuries...
...Ping-Pong match, the ball went from one to the other," according to Bertil Andersson, a member of the Nobel Committee. Cech heard of the award while in Boston accepting another prize. "I am obviously excited about it," he said. "It was something that everyone has been telling me would happen, but I had no way of knowing when." What will the researchers do with their $470,000 prize? "I'll just go back to the lab and do more work," Altman said. Cech had other ideas. Said he: "I have two young daughters who are very good at spending...
Abernathy claims that he would have avoided sexual matters "had others not dealt with the matter in such detail." Previous accounts of King's philandering, says Abernathy, have not provided an explanation of his behavior. Abernathy does not do much better, merely observing that King "had a particularly difficult time" fending off women...
...would Abernathy add an unsavory note to the memory of King's murder? He complains that King's other aides saw him as "no more than an appendage to Martin," so he may have wished to underscore his leading role in SCLC. His declared purpose, however, was "to render justice to the dead without causing too much unnecessary pain to the living...