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...campaign against child porn. New York City has cracked down, and police have at least temporarily forced kiddy-sex periodicals and films out of the tawdry Times Square area. Some twenty states are considering child-porn laws. Last week the Illinois house of representatives approved a bill setting stiff penalties for producing and selling child porn. The bill is expected to pass the senate and become state...
...highly desirable. But, if the U.S. auto industry is forced to meet the 1985 standard of 27.5 m.p.g., it will be subjected to debilitating competition from foreign carmakers, who are far more experienced at making small autos, and threaten a loss of jobs. A better idea: to rely on stiff taxes on big cars. In Europe, that approach, plus high gasoline prices, prompts most buyers to choose gas-miserly small cars, while allowing manufacturers to turn out large, flashy autos for motorists who want and can afford them...
...source of constant irritation to her is what she believes is the repressed body language of women in her audiences. "I see these very stiff, inhibited women who move and act so much like my character Mrs. Beasley, and I think it's criminal. This is what the culture has done to a lot of women-made them so uptight, so uncertain, so thwarted. It's a matter of power and powerlessness...
Amid all the good fellowship that Jimmy Carter enjoyed last week when he attended a town meeting in Clinton, Mass., there was one discordant note. The President was greeted by a full-page ad in the Clinton daily Item urging him to save the American shoe industry by imposing stiff tariffs and quotas on imports. Earlier in the week, the Government's independent International Trade Commission, which is already on record in favor of protecting the shoemakers, had called for tight curbs on U.S. imports of sugar and color-television sets as well. "The protectionist heat is on," said...
...breast through the tumorous area and out the other side (see diagram). Thin plastic tubes are then threaded through the needles (which are subsequently removed) and anchored in place by small plastic buttons at either end. The iridium-in the form of tiny "seeds" embedded in a thin, stiff nylon ribbon -is inserted into the tubes. The outer layer of the seed is a steel sheathing; it blocks dangerous ionizing beta rays (electrons), but allows the escape of the high-energy gamma rays that destroy the tumor...