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WASHINGTON--The staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommended yesterday that the agency adopt a controversial rules change that would enable it to license nuclear power plants over the objections of state and local officials...
...picture), and there are some mildly amusing slapstick scenes in which she tries to feed the baby spaghetti and meat sauce and to change the baby's diaper. Eventually, though, J.C.'s maternal instincts begin to emerge when she decides not to give Elizabeth up for adoption--not a difficult decision, considering the frighteningly sober Minnesota hicks who want to adopt her. As J.C. tells Stephen (Harold Ramis), her yuppie love, she can't give up Elizabeth to a future of "frosted lipstick and Dairy Queen uniforms...
...schools and how well. A President can exhort, encourage, prod and deplore, and to some extent use federal aid or its denial to effect changes. But a President Biden could not order school districts to lengthen the class year, nor could a President du Pont force them to adopt his "universal choice" plan...
While agreeing in principle, some doctors questioned Koop's fairness. Said Dr. Alan Nelson, chairman of the American Medical Association's board: "The incidences of refusal to treat AIDS patients are anecdotal and isolated." Both Koop and Nelson urge health-care workers to adopt preventive measures, such as wearing gloves, to avoid contamination...
...Shultz's key goals are to narrow differences in the way of a treaty to scrap U.S. and Soviet medium-range missiles so it can be signed this year at a superpower summit and persuading the Soviets to adopt a short timetable for withdrawing 115,000 troops from Afghanistan...