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...VLCCs were initially built without any experience or any attempt to really understand what was involved in such sizes. There have been improvements, but the fundamental structural problem of the ships is unchanged. For example, a VLCC must be able to steam through a monsoon one week, subantarctic storms off the Cape of Good Hope the next, pass through the tropics, then the Biscay or North Atlantic coast gales. These subject its great length to severe hogging and sagging, with its broad decks constantly subjected to the weight of tremendous quantities of sea water because of the low freeboard...
SCHUMACHER THEREFORE makes no attempt to veil the values on which he bases his economics. For him, permanence, along with the cardinal virtues of health and beauty, is the qualitative criterion on which economic activity should be judged. If an activity cannot be sustained over a long time without poisoning the environment or degrading the social structure, then it is not worth continuing, regardless of its effect on GNP. What we really need from scientists and technologists is not "fantastic satisfactions" like space flight but methods and equipment... "cheap enough to be accessible to everyone; suitable for small-scale application...
...necessary? To be sure, the character of the House here has changed, though it is neither noisier nor quieter, more passive nor more active, and the greater variety of personality types have already set us on a par with the rest of the College. However, this continued attempt to make us totally indistinguishable (and hence indiscernable) from Adams House, for instance, is making large, happy, quiet communities within the House become smaller, paranoid, and angry. They have felt the university uprooting them entirely, as though they were crabgrass which might contaminate the straight and true Harvard Man; they have seen...
...suggestions would not be so unfortunate if there were nothing really wrong with House administration. But unmasked House surveys from the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation show that there is some strong student dissatisfaction with the ways particular masters run their Houses. Also, the task force does not attempt to deal with the problem of the revolving--door Masters, when Houses experience one, two or even three masters within a single College generation. The way such deep-seated problems are attacked clearly draws a distinction between this report and a task force report such as the core curriculum group...
...rejecting Flanagan's plea, the majority opinion has thwarted an ugly attempt to limit the definition of a legal abortion. But in writing in an additional majority statement arguing that Edelin, as long as he did not cause its death, could not be held liable even had the fetus lived and then died, three of the justices have gone a step further: they have offered protection to doctors who perform abortions in the future. Justices Kaplan, Braucher and Wilkins recognized that when a 17-year-old woman entered Boston City Hospital in late September 1973 requesting an abortion, Edelin observed...