双女结伴走川藏

去年春天,《南风窗》“城市故事”的专栏编辑收到一封来信,两个广州女孩在信中说,她们将要用3年的时间,自筹资金,结伴走遍祖国的大江南北,完成一个被她们称为“中华女子第一行”的壮举。这封信在“城市故事热线”中刊登之后,编辑收到了不少来信,有的要求与两个姑娘结伴而行,也有的主动提出为她们解决沿途的吃住问题,也有各地的希望小学来信邀请她们前往参观考察。3月8日,两个女孩离开广州,开始了她们的第一站行程——川藏之行。8个月的时间,行程3万多公里,走完了云、贵、川、新疆和西藏5省区,拍摄了大量图片,记录了许多宝贵的经历。两个年轻姑娘一个叫吴颀一个叫雨雁,吴颀原本是一个摄影记者,而学绘画的雨雁则刚从学校毕业不久。为了实现她们这次全国之游的理想,吴颀将以前工作的积蓄全部拿出,雨雁则不断为人画一些商业画来赚钱。另外,她们的家庭也在经济上给了她们很大的支持。而为能够顺利而安全地走完全程,她们准备了两个大行囊的物品,还特意到公安部门买回一些防身的装备。不过,在旅途中,她们仍经历过不少危险,而吴颀还受了伤。至发稿日,她们已经完成了第一站的行程,正在努力工作赚钱。今年暮春之时,她们又将出发,奔向新的旅途。在这里,我们编发她们在第一站行程中的一些经历和她们的摄影绘画。     

美国行政诉讼若干问题

<正> 一个律师要代理当事人向法院起诉政府当局或管理机构的行为,控告行政机关的行为是违法的,他怎么向法院提起诉讼呢?他的案件属于哪个法院管辖呢?他所控告的行政行为是否属于法院的审查对象?当事人具有诉讼资格吗?对该行政行为起诉的诉讼时机是否已经"成熟"?当事人是否已穷尽了行政救济途径?本文将分别讨论这些问题。     

Danger: implants

The superheated debate over breast implants awakened a sleeping giant of an issue clouding "medical devices"--the government's clumsy nomenclature for any medical product that is not a drug, from breast implants and artificial hips to X-ray machines and surgical thread. Some 130 categories of high-risk devices are in use with little or no proof of safety, reliability or effectiveness. All appeared before 1976, the year that the Food and Drug Administration got the authority to regulate such products. Under activist chief David Kessler and with added clout from a 1990 law, the FDA plans to scrutinize the entire 130-item list. Five will get special attention starting early next year: saline-filled breast implants, inflatable penile implants, testicular implants, heart-bypass pumps and cranial stimulators. U.S. News has looked at all five devices, using FDA data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. In-depth computer analysis suggested that penile implants deserve closer examination. Why is clear from the following report.     

Mortality in Mexico. Some considerations on rural-urban differentials

"In this essay, certain aspects related to rural-urban mortality differentials in Mexico are analyzed....[These include] the availability, advantages, and limitations of different sources of information and the disparity of levels and tendencies according to particular indicators of acceptable reliability, especially those deriving from recent demographic surveys conducted in Mexico. The findings confirm an inverse ratio between size of settlement and mortality, and reveal a widening of the differentials over time." (SUMMARY IN ENG)