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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Nonetheless, communication about sex between parents and children is stuck in the Dark Ages. Says one Washington psychiatrist: "Parents and children don't want to know about each other as sexual beings. Sex is the point of separation, the country into which a parent does not travel with a child." That is one reason why school sex-education courses, which put the subject at a clinical remove, have become the norm...
...requires teens to obtain the permission of both parents or of a judge, about 75% of the girls who have abortions share the decision with their parents. Levels of parental involvement are equally high in neighboring Connecticut and New Hampshire, where such consent is not required. "I see no point whatsoever in the parent- involvement laws," says Jamie Ann Sabino, an attorney who chairs the Lawyer Referral Panel on Judicial Consent for Minors in Massachusetts. "These girls didn't go to their parents because of them...
...inevitable we lobby for tight reporting requirements to prevent fraud." The new tactic was explained at the National Right to Life Committee convention in Sacramento last month by Scott Fischbach, the group's field coordinator: Laws that ban some abortions, he said, "can lead up to the point of stopping them...
...East German journalists, the good news has turned bad. Dozens of newspapers are on the point of collapse or takeover from the West. They have lost vital subsidies and cannot compete with glossier West German publications. The East German press seems condemned to die just as it began to live...
...that would provide $240 million over the next three years to help poorer countries switch to chemicals that are more expensive but less harmful than CFCs for use as refrigerants, solvents and propellants in spray cans. The fund, proposed long before the London meeting, had been a major sticking point until a few weeks ago, chiefly because the Bush Administration had declined to support it. Consequently, such populous developing nations as India and China continued to refuse to sign the Montreal Protocol. Bush finally reversed himself, under withering criticism from inside and outside the U.S., and India and China have...