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Scientists are more likely to work on academic problems than on finding cures for diseases which afflict thousands of people, he said...
They are an urban planner's dream: new cities carved out of the raw earth, self-contained, self-sufficient and carefully designed to avoid all the problems that afflict older, unplanned urban centers. In 1971 the Department of Housing and Urban Development began financing 13 such communities,*and that so-called new towns program became one of the decade's most widely publicized Government social experiments. Now the planner's dream has become HUD'S nightmare. Housing Secretary Patricia Harris has announced that the new towns program will be ended, and HUD will abandon financial control...
...feminist issue may one day come to afflict the church, but for the present, Mormonism is booming. Growth is fueled by members, who give 10% of their gross income, and profits from such church holdings as a good chunk of downtown Salt Lake City, 326,500 acres elsewhere, insurance companies with $383 million in assets, the Salt Lake newspaper, eleven radio stations and two TV stations, $36 million in Times-Mirror Co. shares (3% of the total company stock), and controlling interest in a department-store chain and a beet-sugar firm...
Psychokinesis is the ability to focus and project mental influence on physical objects. Those who have it can, in theory anyway, move mountains or, if we are to believe The Fury, afflict people who cross them with ailments ranging from nosebleeds to cerebral hemorrhages, and worse. To most of us, psychokinesis exists in that exotic realm where pseudo-scientific speculation meets metaphysics, but for Brian De Palma it is obviously an obsession. It was the subject of 1976's highly successful Carrie, and he has returned to it again in The Fury...
Checkbook administration, however, has torn apart the subsistence economy of the territory and contributed to an environment of distorted development and social despair. Indeed, most of the same problems afflict the South Pacific islands held by the U.S. independent of any U.N. sanction. These include...