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Because of the nature of their work, Place volunteers are very aware of current political and social problems. Frequently they must confront the question of whether to address the larger social issues a caller's specific problems illustrate or to help them adapt to a messed-up social system. This problem is particularly acute on women's issues because the feminist approach of many Place volunteers suggests more radical action than some callers are ready to take...
Botha's reforms are motivated by a conviction that majority-rule settlements in Namibia and Zimbabwe Rhodesia will present South Africa with an "adapt or die" situation. Urged by top military advisers, he has ordered a sweeping review of the restrictive laws, known as "petty apartheid," in an attempt to stave off an overwhelming onslaught from black African nations combined with mass rebellion by the country's 20 million blacks. To the howls of hard-line Afrikaners, the Prime Minister has proposed the "improvement" of laws prohibiting interracial sex and marriage. In order to create new jobs...
...Though adaptive responses keep the body running for a while, even for months if some food and water are available, prolonged starvation eventually disrupts vital processes. Says Dr. Buford Nichols Jr. of Houston's Baylor College of Medicine: "You keep falling back, like a military withdrawal, but finally the body just collapses." Adds Dr. Myron Winick of New York City's Columbia University Institute of Nutrition: "Victims of starvation have to adapt. But once they do, they have a very small margin for error." Death comes in many ways. The intestinal walls become damaged; severe and constant diarrhea...
...first time I started into the puddle I thought 'I really don't want to do this,' but once I went in I thought it was fun," Piersiak said. "I think the rain really bothered Brown, but we can adapt more easily to lousy conditions...
...ditches for a gas company in France. "He had this amazing courage about going into new situations and getting to meet people," Moskowitz said. "He would spend the day talking and working with the people he met in the ditches, then have dinner with the owners; he could adapt like that," Moskowitz added...