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...also interferes with the reproductive cycle. Adult fish, for example, are able to tolerate relatively high levels of DDT. The fish embryo, on the other hand, dies almost immediately when it begins to absorb the pesticide through the fatty yolk sac. In birds, DDT kills off the young by interfering with the female's egg-laying process. Though the exact chemistry is still obscure, the pesticide apparently sends the mother bird's liver into a frenzy of enzyme production. The excess enzymes break down such steroids as estrogen that are essential to the manufacture of calcium. Lacking adequate...
...Religious life should and will be integrated in One Religion which should and will supplement, absorb or replace existing sects...
...Edgar Faure. More important, Pompidou, a former classics teacher, has definite ideas on education. He has promised to "restore the authority of teachers and professors." Pompidou is known as a "selectionist"-one who believes that universities should turn out no more graduates than industry and the public service can absorb...
...supply and demand" or "an economic fact of life." We cannot be satisfied merely to remark that the lack of adequate housing at reasonable prices is a natural consequence of the fact that more people want to live in Cambridge than the number of units available can absorb. New construction to expand the supply of housing is a need for the highest priority, but not simply so that more people can live here. We must protect the ability of long-term residents of Cambridge to stay here. What we must do, as a matter of public responsibility, is to insure...
FIRST, THEY must build more housing for their students and faculty because the available housing simply cannot absorb them, and because the students themselves cannot really be served the housing market they find in Cambridge. When they do enter it, they are forced to accept housing conditions fully as bad as those experienced by other residents. This is equally true of single or married graduate students and younger faculty or staff members, who often live on genuinely moderate incomes...