36 percent over 10 years. The televangelists' forays into politics also hurt. In 1985, when talk of a presidential bid Pat Robertson started to be heard in public, Robertson's TV audience began to shrink. Even before the Jim Bakker scandal broke in 1987, the audience for The 700 Club had fallen by 21 per- cent over two years.
But the nimble entrepreneurs of faith have readjusted. Robertson, for example, restructured his Christian Broadcasting Network to present family-entertainment programs along...
a committee of the National Research Council, Reilly notes, "said that EPA has no com- prehensive inventory of waste sites, no program for discovering new sites, insufficient data for determining safe exposure levels, and an inad- equate system for identifying sites that require immediate action to protect public health."
"The existence of toxic wastes at a site does not necessarily mean that they pose a threat to nearresidents," Reilly notes. Recent research has shown, for...
Jonathan H. Adler, in Policy Review (Spring 1993), the Heritage Foundation, 214 Mass. Ave. N.E., Washing-ton, D.C. 20002-4999.
At the turnof the century,GiffordPinchot and other leaders of the emerging conservation movement warned that the United States would soon destroy the last of its once-vast forests. Their pessimistic forecasts were not without foundation, notes Adler, an environmental-policy analyst at the Washing- ton-based Competitive Enterprise Institute. The 19th and early 20th centuries...
Packaging in the '90s" and "Demographics & Discards," in Garbage (Dec. 1992-Jan. 1993), Dovetale Publishers, 2 Main St., Gloucester, Mass. 01930.
America the Wastefulcould be the tide of a hit song on the environmentalist pkebox. The lyrics would tell how Americans in 1990 each threw away about four pounds of solid waste-about a pound more apiecethan.they had discarded 20 years earlier. The villain of the piece: excessive packaging, especially plastic packaging such as the...
Wasted Words
Packaging in the '90s" and "Demographics & Discards," in Garbage (Dec. 1992-Jan. 1993), Dovetale Publishers, 2 Main St., Gloucester, Mass. 01930.
America the Wastefulcould be the tide of a hit song on the environmentalist pkebox. The lyrics would tell how Americans in 1990 each threw away about four pounds of solid waste-about a pound more apiecethan.they had discarded 20 years earlier. The villain of the piece: excessive packaging, especially plastic packaging...
ens Peale with Geranium conveys the intellectual and scientific bent of Peale's brother and suggests the New World's fertile environment.
Carol Baton Hevner, was the first full-length study of the artist. "It is now clear," Washington- based writer May says, "that over many decades of painting Rembrandt Peale produced an out- standing portrait gallery of his generation of Americans."
As a young boy in 1787, Peale watched with fascination as his father painted a portrait of...
Chandak Sengoopta, in The American Scholar (Spring 1993), 1811 Q St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
When baker Satyajit Ray (1921-92) died last year, not long after being awarded a special Os- car, it was said that his films were more appre- ciated in the United States than in his native In- dia. That is empty self-congratulation, says Sengoopta, a Calcutta psychiatrist and journal- ist studying at Johns Hopkins. Ray's limited appeal in the West dramatizes the plight of the Third World artist who...
Conor Cruise O'Brien, in National Review (Apr. 26,1993), 150 E. 35th St., New York, N.Y. 10016.
During more than two decades of terrorism in, and from, Northern Ireland, the prevailing po- litical wisdom has been that patient negotia- tions will eventually lead to a general solution, which will then isolate the terrorists and ren- der them harmless. This approach-exempli- fied the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985- has failed, Irish historian and politician Conor Cruise O'Brien argues. It is time,...
Shlomo Avineri, in The Brookings Review (Spring 1993), 1775 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
The end of the Cold War has transformed poli- tics in the Middle East. The radical Arab forces have lost their Soviet patron, and the Israelis feel less threatened. But a second, less obvious con- sequence of the Soviet empire's collapse is also making for greater stability in the region, accord- ing to Avineri, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This development is the reforging of cultural...
Yale sociologist Albert J. Reiss, Jr., concludes that efforts to pre-vent crime eventually may prove as valuable as police work, pros- ecutions, and prisons.
Gun control is one often-de- bated crime-preventionmeasure. Research has not shown any link between the availability of guns and the number of violent inci- dents or injuries, the panel says. But since ps tend to be more lethal thaiother weapons, keep- ing them out of the hands of unsupervised juveniles and out of homes with histories of family...