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...society is safe from an environmental catastrophe like the one that befell the Sacramento. Each year more than 1.5 million carloads of poisons, solvents, pesticides and other hazardous materials are hauled across the U.S. by train. Given the sheer volume of traffic, accidental chemical releases are inevitable, and they occur at the rate of about three a day. In 1988 there were 1,015 toxic rail spills; last year there were 1,254 such incidents, an increase of nearly...
...threat he posed to Swaggart, whose operations were grossing $140 million a year before his fall. But he was beyond question a fast-rising figure. More important, Gorman was lining up wider distribution via two Louisiana TV stations and a satellite uplink -- a purchase that was scheduled to occur the day he quit the church. Gorman contends he could have brought the plan off but for Swaggart's accusations. Instead his TV ministry went bankrupt in 1987, and he left the airwaves. His new church, the Metropolitan Christian Centre in suburban Metairie, La., has 450 congregants, and Gorman returned...
...demise of old countries and the birth of new ones are more likely to be peaceful if they occur in a cooperative international environment where economies are capitalist, trade is free, political life is democratic, security is collective, and some degree of sovereignty is pooled. Europe -- thanks to the Common Market, the Helsinki process and the march toward integration in 1993 -- is closer to that ideal than anywhere else. Hence Slovenia, Lithuania and the Ukraine have somewhere to go. And, crucially, their masters in Belgrade and Moscow have less to fear in letting them...
Each year in the U.S. about 7,000 infants die in their cribs for no apparent reason. Because doctors cannot find anything physically wrong with them, these babies are listed as victims of sudden infant death syndrome, a mysterious disorder that seems to occur when infants somehow forget to breathe. But new % evidence from a pair of pediatricians at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that a subtle form of suffocation may be the true culprit in one-quarter to one-half of all suspected SIDS cases. Their conclusion, published in last week's New England...
...that the practice of compensating favored customers for losses is uncommon in Japan, nor is it necessarily illegal. Government regulations only forbid companies from promising "in advance" that a customer would be compensated if market losses occur. Then why the outrage? For one thing, the amounts paid to wealthy customers were large, estimated at $465 million for the Big Four firms, which cut into profits that should have gone to stockholders. Then there was the question of fair play in favoring big customers over small ones. Add to that the unsavory (but probably legal) loans to a crime boss...