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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turns out that burning corn is O.K., but that growing it, at least the way it's grown now, is not. Lovins says the erosion modern farming causes eats two bushels of topsoil for every bushel of corn produced. Agricultural strip mining. So in his view, corn stoves may make the best sense only in regions where there's lots of corn (especially if it's rotting in silos) but few trees...
...that excuse grew thin when the People's Party did not even try to introduce bills that might prove acceptable to all parties. Considering the extravagant promises of the party manifesto and Pakistan's abysmal poverty and appalling 77% illiteracy rate, there is little time to waste. To make matters worse, Bhutto has expended much of her energy on disputes with President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, a cautious civil servant who was close...
...ethnic minorities as scapegoats. The sudden arrival of new freedoms in the Warsaw Pact states at the end of 1989 has brought with it a broadened right to be demagogic and irresponsible, threatening the region's proclaimed goals of democracy, cooperation and stability. "People are able to make decisions for themselves again, and they ) are starting at grade one," says Deyan Kyurianov, a leader of Bulgaria's opposition Union of Democratic Forces. "Nationalism is easy to understand and quick to arouse...
...A.H.A. calls the Government's stance hypocritical. "We're stepping into a good-bad food environment that has been perpetuated by the food industry with terms like 'lite' and 'no cholesterol,' " declares Dr. Myron Weisfeldt, president of the A.H.A. To help consumers make intelligent use of HeartGuide, the A.H.A. is providing explanatory brochures to supermarkets and a toll-free information line...
...Kremlin's decision to dispatch troops to stop the bloody fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Now that the Soviet military threat seems less menacing, other issues are coming to the fore, including the disputes among the various nationalities that make up the Soviet Union. The past few weeks have demonstrated just how tangled and explosive these conflicts are and how difficult it will be for the U.S. to decide on its response to each...