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What is finally most distressing is that there is in fact enough grain in the world now to make up current food deficits if the countries that need it can find the money to buy it. Long-range needs will require that the more affluent nations slow their current gorging, not only of meat but of fuel. And the burgeoning world population, which if left un checked will double within 35 years, must be brought under control. But getting food from where it is most abundant to where it is most needed remains a problem naggingly resistant to easy, conscience...
...month trying to rid the City Park's lagoons of gators that had already eaten all the park's ducks and were working their way through its fish and turtles. Panicked phone callers-as many as seven a week-report alligators in residential districts, even in the affluent sections bordering Bayou...
...Norwood, Paterson is a symbol of the neglected American city, an entity never acknowledged or accomodated by American political institutions. Cities by and large exist at the pleasure of their state governments, which are dominated by rural interests, or more recently, by the affluent suburbs. She is correct is pointing out that American cities have always been suspect. It is in the dense cities that individualist land and property rights have been attacked by collectivist demands...
...into what could be called the more classic (58%) and the more populist (42%) constituencies on the basis of the latter group's angry, resentful feeling that it has been left out of the American mainstream. The populist conservatives also tended to be less well educated and less affluent-45% are in economic distress, compared with 28% of the classic conservatives...
Diet has also been implicated as a factor in breast cancer, which appears to be more common in countries where people consume large quantities of animal fats. In the U.S., the disease appears more frequently among the affluent and well fed than among other groups. Japan, where the traditional diet is low in animal fats, has the lowest breast-cancer rate of 39 countries covered in a recent study. But even there the rate is rising as Japanese forsake their old diet of fish and rice for a Westernized menu of meat and fats. Japanese women who emigrate...