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DIED. LEOPOLD PAGE, 87, Holocaust survivor whose zeal and persistence led to the publication (and, eventually, the film version) of Schindler's List; in Los Angeles. Polish-born Page survived World War II after being rescued from a concentration camp in 1944 when he was included in the list of 1,200 Jews that Oskar Schindler employed in his munitions factory. Owner of a leather goods shop in Beverly Hills after the war, Page spent 40 years badgering writers to take up Schindler's story, finally succeeding when Australian author Thomas Keneally came into the store to buy a briefcase...
Beijing is reluctant to enforce AIDS awareness with the zeal it applied to the one-child policy or new capitalism. Officially, prostitution and drug addiction don't exist, so having officials go around to the brothels handing out condoms to the girls is unthinkable. But several AIDS-afflicted provinces are moving forcefully. In Yunnan, health authorities teamed up with MEdecins sans Frontieres and other foreign agencies to educate at-risk Chinese about AIDS. "We're hoping they pass the word on to others," says Liu Wei, director of the province's AIDS prevention center...
...whole alarmist business, from the study itself and the concerned murmurs of administrators and cops to the posturing of the beer-baiters at the Harvard School of Public Health, is just brimming with puritanical zeal. Forty-six percent, we are told, in hushed tones, like passers-by at a funeral. How terrible--these kids are just out of control--whatever...
...drugs, if it is to be waged on marijuana growers like Kyllo, certainly demands zeal. And the Supreme Court may well rule that a man's home is his castle only if he's installed lead panels in the walls. But this is also a court that leans strongly toward individual rights, no matter how you interpret the end of the vote-counting in Florida, and they're likely to take the constitutional right against unreasonable search and seizure pretty seriously...
...Next Generation Yoga will become sleeping doggies, lions and snakes before the 45-minute session is over. They will walk on their hands and feet with their butts in the air, balance on one leg and sit chanting, "Om." Similar menageries are sprouting up across the country. With the zeal of the newly converted, baby boomers are introducing their children to yoga on the apparent theory that balanced lives begin with balanced children. And with their easy flexibility and willing imaginations, kids are proving natural yogis...