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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Canned Pineapple One year after his capture was hailed as a major victory in the drug war, Manuel Noriega sat in a Miami jail while his lawyers haggled with the government over the size of their legal fees and the issue of whether the former Panamanian dictator can get a fair trial...
...international nonprofit research group, and Wyeth- Ayerst Laboratories, a division of American Home Products Corp. of Philadelphia, the method prevents pregnancy by using the hormone progestin, which with estrogen is the active ingredient in most birth-control pills. Norplant consists of six progestin-filled silicone tubes, each about the size of a matchstick. In a simple 15-minute procedure, a doctor inserts the tubes just beneath the skin in a woman's upper arm. Once in place, the tiny cylinders start releasing progestin into the bloodstream. The flow continues until the hormone is depleted -- usually in about five years...
These determined do-gooders are just a few of the ecokids, the new generation of conservation-conscious, environmentally active schoolchildren. The Earth Day ardor of their parents may be cooling, but these pint-size crusaders have lost none of theirs. Bombarded with ecomessages in school, in the press, on TV and in pop-music lyrics, the youngsters have become convinced that they were put on the planet for the express purpose of saving...
...double-hulled tankers in an effort to reduce the risk of oil spills, and it has made a commitment to lessen the impact of its exploration operations on rain forests and other sensitive ecosystems. The Houston-based oil company made the happy discovery in Gabon that shrinking the size of drilling areas and roads to minimize damage to forests saved money as well as trees...
...increased cost, of course, largely represents President Bush's decision to roughly double the size of the U.S. force in the gulf area. Nonetheless, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has raised its estimate of the extra costs of Operation Desert Shield from an initial $7 billion to only $12 billion. Some legislators suspect the Pentagon of playing a numbers game in arriving at its own, far higher figure. Because Congress decided to finance the gulf operation outside the regular budget, they believe, the Defense Department is exaggerating Desert Shield's price tag by including many extraneous costs...