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...fight has moved into the courts. In what could become a landmark case, Planned Parenthood of Northeast Florida and 21 citizens in Duval County, Florida, have sued the local school board for rejecting a broad-based sex- education curriculum developed by the board's staff in favor of a controversial abstinence-only program from Teen-Aid, Inc. of Spokane, Washington. Planned Parenthood complains that the material in the text is biased, sensationalist and, at times, misleading. Some school-board members argue that the real issue is whether the local community has the right to choose the sex-education curriculum...
...figures left economists underwhelmed. After a weak first quarter, some worried, the nation might slip back into a recession. Most economists, however, blamed the slowdown on the snow and rainstorms that battered the South, West and Northeast during February and March. Still, the Administration can expect more bad news, says an influential group of chief executives. In its first report card on the Clinton Administration, the Business Council predicted sluggish growth ahead due to the continuing downturn in Europe and other markets...
...previously undefeated Bulldogs had defeated tennis powers Princeton and West Virginia and were expected to be Harvard's primary competition in the Northeast...
Harvard had to play Navy, West Virginia and Princeton in a four-day stretch, all on the road, all league games. In addition, West Virginia and Princeton are ranked among the top programs in the Northeast...
Ethnic Serbian crowds near the Bosnian town of Zvornik, 70 miles northeast of Sarajevo, block -- and eventually turn back -- a rescue convoy carrying the U.N. commander, General Philippe Morillon. The military procession was headed for the surrounded enclave of Srebrenica, where 15,000 Muslims await evacuation, thus far in vain. Despite a World Court ruling in Bosnia's favor against alleged aggression, and the debut slated this week of NATO warplanes to enforce what so far has been a meaningless ban on military flights above Bosnian territory, there remains scant international consensus to punish Serbia for refusing to recognize...