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There is a danger in asking children to accuse an adult of child molesting. Any smart youngster with a sadistic bent and practical mind will find the opportunity to blackmail a loving uncle by reporting an imagined abuse...
...place a grapefruit-size gadget made of aluminum and polyurethane. At 12:50 p.m. last Monday, the Jarvik-7 artificial heart newly sewn inside William J. Schroeder began beating steadily, 70 beats to the minute. When Schroeder opened his eyes 3� hours later in the intensive-care unit, DeVries bent over his patient and whispered assurances, "The operation is all through. You did really well. Everything is perfect...
...Board. Hundreds more are returning every day. "Follow me on the road to sanity," urged John Cunningham, a longtime local officer of the N.U.M. in Northumberland, as he went back to work on Nov. 19, one of 2,282 to do so that day. "These strike leaders are hell-bent on destruction...
Finally, Revel points to the rise within Western democracies of an "industry of blame," bent on fostering a one-sided notion of historical guilt. According to those who hold this view, everything that is bad, especially in the Third World, results from forces in the "rich" - meaning capitalist -democracies. Thus any Western attempt to resist Communist aggression, as in Angola or Viet Nam, arouses intellectual confusion and paralysis. Says Revel: "There was a time when you were an imperialist if you invaded an alien territory and imposed on independent peoples an authority they rejected. Today, you are an imperialist...
...financial world, though, soon began shifting underneath the bankers. Money-market mutual-fund accounts, for example, which were invented in 1971 by Wall Street Mavericks Bruce Bent and Henry Brown, offered interest rates of 8% or more at a time when passbook savings accounts at banks paid only 4½%. In 1977 Merrill Lynch jolted bankers with its Cash Management Account, which combined stock brokerage with savings and checking accounts...