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...troubling question was whether India, which plans to spend some $316 million over the next five years on atomic energy development, has confused its priorities. For a nation where 25% of the 580 million inhabitants subsist below the annual $30 per capita poverty line, such an investment seemed dubious at best...
...allay fear and diffuse emotion regarding Athletics, I propose a predictable and comfortable yardstick in fiscal policy. Participation in and quality of women's athletics is growing throughout the society and the number of undergraduate women is reaching toward a 2.5 to 1 quota under present policy. $120 per capita (for operational and B&G costs) out of each undergraduate women's tuition will not destroy men's programs nor should this prospect panic anyone. The $120 is top dollar for some years to come. Mary G. Paget Assistant for Radcliffe to the Director of Athletics
...million per year. By the end of the century, it could total 7 billion-up from the present 4 billion. To feed these new mouths, the world must produce an additional 30 million tons of food each year-an increase of at least 2.5%-just to maintain present per capita consumption levels. For the developing countries, that is like walking on a treadmill. Although the African nations in the hunger belt have boosted their food production 22% since the early 1960s, per capita consumption has actually fallen 5% because of increased population. By contrast, Americans during the same period went...
...York City suffers an abysmal reputation as a nest of crime. A report issued last week by the U.S. Justice Department's Law Enforcement Assistance Administration shows that this unsavory reputation is not entirely deserved. Among the five largest U.S. cities, New York ranked last on a per-capita basis in the number of rape, assault or robbery victims...
...upsurge of problem drinking among the young is only part of a more disturbing nationwide and even worldwide problem. In the past few years alcoholism-among youths and adults alike-has at last been recognized as a plague. From 1960 to 1970, per capita consumption of alcohol in the U.S. increased 26%-to the equivalent of 2.6 gal. of straight alcohol per adult per year. It is now at an alltime high, probably surpassing the levels during such notoriously wet eras as the pre-Civil War and pre-Prohibition years. Moreover, according to the NIAAA, about...