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American adults support abortion rights. Supporters believe that acceptance of RU 486 in other countries will lead women to push harder to bring it to the U.S. Doctors also warn that if the drug is not made officially available in the U.S., a black market for it will develop...
...million, the first red ink in its 32-year history and a stunning blow for founder and chairman Kenneth Olsen. Ironically, DEC is now threatened by a shift to less expensive but powerful desktop computers. While DEC's size (1989 sales: $12.9 billion) gives it the resources to develop new products, the company will have to move fast to keep up with the market's changing needs...
Waving expansively at the snow-topped Caucasus Mountains, Mikhail Gorbachev observed with a grin that he and Chancellor Helmut Kohl were already in the foothills and wanted "to develop our relations further upward." After two days of talks, their cordiality escalated to outright chumminess. They emerged from a resort lodge in sweaters and open-necked shirts to stroll bantering through the fields and flowers of the Russian countryside. At the resort spa of Zheleznovodsk, they jubilantly announced that they had swept aside the last significant obstacles to uniting Germany by the end of the year. Yes, Gorbachev said, a unified...
Dark pigmentation is obviously protective. The rare melanomas found among blacks develop almost exclusively in areas of lighter skin not usually exposed to the sun: palms of the hands, soles of the feet, under fingernails and even in the mouth. This leads experts to believe that melanomas among blacks are largely genetic...
...migration to tropical climes of people with racial origins in higher, less sunny latitudes has also led to rising rates of skin cancer. A survey of nonmelanoma skin cancers in Hawaii, for example, concluded that Japanese residents of the island of Kauai were 88 times more likely to develop a skin malignancy than Japanese living in Japan. And in subtropical Australia, which was settled largely by the fair-skinned English and Irish, the skin-cancer rate is the highest in the world. Two out of three Australians will develop at least one skin cancer during their lifetime...