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...suburban Chicago electronics giant (1989 sales: $9.6 billion) hopes to put in place by 1996 a network of 77 satellites that can relay phone calls to any spot on the planet. That means when the boss has a question, no Himalayan mountaintop or African jungle encampment will be beyond the reach of the ringing phone. Named Iridium, for the chemical element whose nucleus is orbited by 77 electrons, the Motorola plan would constitute the first global cellular system. Calls would cost $1 to $3 a minute, compared with about 50 cents a minute for cellular calls within urban systems linked...
...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...
...teenagers from becoming pregnant, or provide wise and caring parents when they do. Still, making the argument against parental involvement is like arguing for the right to burn the American flag -- politically, it is a tough case no matter how right the reasoning. Now that the Supreme Court has put its stamp of approval on some notification laws, the two sides head back to the legislatures. Says Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL): "On the heels of this week's court decisions, we again confront the reality that the right to choose literally hangs...
...took effect in 1981, cite a study conducted between 1980 and 1984 indicating that the birthrate for 15-to-17-year-olds in Minneapolis rose 38.4%, while the birthrate for 18-to-19-year-olds, not covered by the law, rose only 0.3%. In the 20 months after Massachusetts put its parental-consent law into effect in 1981, 1 of every 3 teenage abortions was done out of state, while those within the state dropped 43%. Former Superior Court Judge Paul Garrity, who is pro-life by sentiment, feels that the law exists to "harass these kids...
...what proposals? Democrats wanted to use the dread T word somewhere in the statement, but their counterparts preferred something fuzzier. Everyone concurred on "increased tax revenues" in the wan hope, on the White House side, that this compromise might put a fig leaf over what was being said...