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...done so keeping his discussion to "feeling good and feeling bad," "pleasure centers," "romantic wiring," and "the brain's data banks." Liebowitz' materialist amorality is to be expected if one is familiar with his supposedly successful therapies, for instance, giving drugs to a woman which allowed her to abandon a husband she no longer found attractive. Once we begin altering people's minds with drugs, we invite Aldous Huxley's Brave New World scenario where all are happy and none are good...
When Stanford University set up a campuses wide system of bicycle "freeway" paths last fall officials hoped that the number of cycling accidents would drop. Six and a half months later, the school is almost ready to abandon the experiment...
Nuclear deterrence can be tolerated, but never liked. Deterrence can be seen as a necessary evil. Because it is evil, one cannot abandon it carelessly; because it is evil, one must strive to rely on it less...
...first is that Living With Nuclear Weapons is making a very late entrance onto a very crowded stage. Dozens of trashy nuclear books have flooded America since the early months of the Reagan Administration, and more important, many Americans have accepted polar positions that will prove hard to abandon. President Bok deserves much credit for being the catalyst of the finest nuclear study yet, but his efforts might have paid off better had they come sooner. Public education works best when it is both subtle and early. The belated Harvard presence--the white knight from Cambridge come to rescue...
When buses joined the list of deregulated industries last fall, many travelers feared that large bus companies like Greyhound and Trailways would abandon small-town stations where only a few passengers boarded. The giants plan to eliminate 1,300 stops, but dozens of small operators have entered the field, and in many places, bus service is improving...