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Murphy is quick to draw a causal link between such community programs as half-way houses and the decrease in juvenile crime. He especially credits the National Youth Program Using Mini-Bikes (NYPUM) as a central factor in contributing to the youthful crime drop in Cambridge. "NYPUM's probably the most significant factor in keeping kids busy," Murphy says...
...they want, but Bharati says it just is not so. "No determined set of actions, no planning for mysticism, guarantees its occurrence." But surely yoga and meditation help? Brusquely, the author crumples yet another cherished Occidental illusion. In the finest Indian monasteries, postulants are taught that there is "no causal relationship" between spiritual exercises and the mystical culmination. At least half of all mystical experiences come un-summoned. Then why bother to do the exercises? Bharati's guru had one of those exasperating Oriental answers that answer nothing and everything: "Some plow the fields, some go to war, some...
Monthly Cycles. The probability of a causal relationship between estrogen and uterine cancer was strengthened last week by two reports in the New England Journal of Medicine. The first, a statistical study prepared by a team led by Dr. Noel Weiss of the University of Washington in Seattle, stated that between 1969 and 1973 the incidence of cancer of the uterus had generally increased from about 20% to 60%, depending on the geographical area surveyed, among middle-aged women. The magnitude of that increase, concluded the study, "has rarely been paralleled in the history of cancer reporting in this country...
...base, a task they say would be facilitated by the end of rent control and the curtailment of downzoning. At the other extreme, non-incumbent John Brode '52 (CC '75), formerly a co-founder with Saundra Graham of the radical Grass Roots Organization, points to what he calls a "causal link between high rise buildings and crime," and argues that tax dollars from development are eaten up by the cost of providing increased city services. Brode favors abolishing the property tax altogether and replacing it with a state-imposed graduated income...
...with your unnamed reporter, I can hardly believe he claimed--as the article implies--that it applies to every homosexual. This is neither the time nor the place to discuss whether one needs to explain homosexual behavior at all. But even if, as Schwartz suggests, there should be a causal link between hormone composition and homosexuality, one might more fairly describe it as a different distribution of, or a variation in hormones rather than as a "hormonal imbalance." If the traditionally conservative members of the APA are "not saying that homosexuality is either 'normal' or 'abnormal'" any more, couldn...