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Such programs have been slow in getting started. In at least one important region, though, there has been encouraging progress. The island of Madagascar is home to a stunning array of animal, plant and fish species, most found nowhere else in the world. Under intense pressure from a burgeoning population, the island is already largely deforested. But conservationists and government officials, making personal visits to more than 100 villages surrounding the Ranomafana primal rain forest, have taught indigenous people about the region's genetic diversity and shown them ways to survive without plundering the forest. Ranomafana is soon...
...though, Earth Day 1990 comes at a time when environment is a motherhood issue. Since polls show that Americans want environmental protection regardless of costs, the problem is not so much awakening the nation to ecological threats as it is getting people to face the difficult choices entailed in dealing with those threats. For a number of reasons, Earth Day might actually thwart that...
...Though Cincinnati's reputation for conservatism is well deserved -- "Decency Central," local columnist Jim Rohrer calls it -- the city is hardly unique. Says Alfred Tuchfarber, a University of Cincinnati pollster: "Hamilton County tracks the nation perfectly on major social and moral issues." A poll released Friday by the Cincinnati Post and Tuchfarber's Institute for Policy Research showed that 58.9% of those questioned thought the Mapplethorpe exhibit should be allowed. Only 38.4% felt it should...
...TRUST YOUR INSURER . . . There are ominous signs that the insurance industry may be facing a crisis that could rival the savings and loan debacle. Though insurers get income from premiums, most of their earnings come from investments, which have suffered major losses due to plunges in the real estate and junk-bond markets. Some are stuck with more than $1 billion in troubled mortgages, and the industry as a whole owns $60 billion worth of junk bonds. Compounding concerns is the fact that 1989 was one of the costliest years for accidents: tens of billions in claims are being processed...
...Though it's not all her fault, the Census director seems to have lost almost half of us. Only 57% of forms were returned by last week, a whole California town was forgotten, and in some places 10% of homes got no forms...