Word: projects
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...armed forces," says Luiz Pinguelli Rosa, a nuclear specialist at the Brazilian Physics Society, "are continuing their nuclear programs." If funds for them are not halted, Rosa predicts, Brazil's military could produce a Hiroshima-size bomb in a year or two. Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, a Washington think tank, agrees. "The State Department has not been willing to recognize that Brazil is a proliferation risk," he says...
Hamilton, a close friend of Imelda Marcos' in the 1980s, testified that a Marcos associate gave him $5.5 million in 1983 for an abortive film project. Hamilton returned the money to a Hong Kong bank that proved to have ties to Marcos. In another transaction, a Marcos crony lent Hamilton $6 million, including $4 million that was secured by the actor's Beverly Hills estate. Hamilton later sold the home to a buyer close to Marcos. While Hamilton's lawyer conceded that his client may have been a "tool for someone," he argued that the actor "would not knowingly participate...
...national sovereignty, was tacitly acknowledging her need to belong -- and her fear of losing influence over decisions in an E.C. in which the center of political gravity is shifting toward the newly united Germany. At the same time, however, Thatcher brought with her a philosophical challenge to the wider project, that of creating a common currency and central bank. Said European Commission President Jacques Delors: "Only the future will tell us if British entry into the EMS is not a pretext to slow down the process of integration." As a full-fledged EMS member, Thatcher is bound to sharpen...
...come into regular contact with the mentally ill. Philadelphia has experimented with groups in which patients receive support from their peers. This approach "provides people with a feeling that they can give as well as receive help," says Joe Rogers, president of the city's self-help group Project SHARE. But the impact of the model mental-health programs is far too limited. Fountain House, for example, can accept only 1 out of every 5 people who apply for membership...
...shame that the William Montagues are so few. The solution is no mystery; only the will and resources are missing. "We know what needs to be done," says Project SHARE's Rogers. "We're just not doing...