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...Global warming. Every respected scientist in the nation agrees that global warming is a real phenomenon. Specialists argue over the amount of warming, but no one contends that the greenhouse effect is a hoax--no one, that is, except America's leading armchair environmentalist, White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu...
Still, the plethora of choices ought to delight readers for the moment -- except that, to judge by early issues, most of the recent entrants are woefully short of ideas. They are also a bit short on diversity: both story subjects and models (the magazines are greatly concerned with clothes) are overwhelmingly white. The very fact of homosexuality is largely ignored. Three competitors are in their opening month or two: Details, a bratty, street- talking melange aimed at men in their 20s and early 30s; Men's Life, a smirky yet sentimental blend of National Lampoon and the Saturday Evening Post...
...CSCE, as its name suggests, has been simply a conference, its duties, membership and even its full title a mystery to most Americans and Europeans. CSCE includes all European states except Albania, plus the U.S. and Canada. It met first in Helsinki in 1975 -- at the height of detente -- to sign a nonbinding declaration of principles focused on nonaggression, human rights and economic cooperation. Since then, there have been three review conferences, but CSCE has never acquired a staff or even a mailing address. The foreign ministers agreed last week that the Paris summit should establish a permanent CSCE secretariat...
...still have tremendous resources. Our share of the global product is about what it always was, except in the unnatural years following World War II when much of the world was prostrate. And our GNP is almost twice that of any other country...
Everyone suddenly was concerned about the neighborhood. A forum was organized at the local Episcopal Church, St. Martin's. Our Alderman, who seldom appears on Midway Park except to claim credit for someone else's achievements, came, as did the local police commander. Tribune and Chicago News Service guys showed...