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...billion world population will multiply to almost 7 billion by the year 2000.* Most alarming, continued Lord Caradon, is the fact that the increase is greatest in those areas of the world with the least capacity to feed growing numbers of people. It is not so bad in the U.S. (1.6% a year) and Western Europe (only about 1%), but it is ominous in Latin America, where population is increasing by 3% a year and possibly more. Population growth is surpassing economic growth, and with it the ability to feed more people. Said Caradon, with impeccable logic: "Production and reproduction...
...Harvard pass-fail would probably not live up to its notices. There are a number of things besides the fear of bad grades--concentration requirements, for example--which keep students from experimenting with courses in fields that are strange to them. Given the general ease with which one can get a C or even an honors B-- in any Harvard course, grades are probably not, in fact, the most important factor...
...pass-fail is not a major educational reform, it is still worth fighting for. A student's reluctance to experiment, for one thing, may come not from a fear of bad grades or anything concrete, but a simple, instinctive reaction that certain courses are too strange, too rough for him. If pass-fail could help to break down that kind of barrier--and the number of students who have expressed interest in taking Fine Arts 13 and Music 1 pass-fail indicates it might--that alone would justify...
...plan would make it easier for a student who needs good grades to concentrate on three courses instead of four, and there is no reason why he should not have that freedom. It would make it easier for other students to have some more free time--again, not a bad idea...
...Marijuana does not produce physical addiction, but it does produce significant dependence, to a serious degree." Wow. Even if the prose weren't so bad this would be an objectionable sentence. For one thing, it's untrue. Marijuana no more "produces" dependence that driving fast does; people may get hung up or stung on either, but the chemical or car can hardly be blamed, certainly not in the sense that heroin or alcohol can. Marijuana simply does not produce that kind of dependency...