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Another study linking TV watching with aggression was funded by CBS. In 1972 the network commissioned William Belson, a sociologist at the London School of Economies' Survey Research Center, to run a six-year, $290,000 study of 1,565 London teen-age boys. Belson's conclusion: long exposure to television noticeably increased the degree to which they engaged in serious acts of violence (smashing cars and phone booths, setting shopping bags on fire...
Professors Jerome and Dorothy Singer, who head Yale University's Family Television Research Center, have been studying groups of several hundred three-and four-year-olds as they watch TV at home and in nursery school. They feel that heavy TV viewing stunts the growth of the imagination in the crucial ages between three and five. Such children make up fewer games and imaginary playmates...
Prices of the most routine facilities and treatments are staggering. Samples: in 1969 Massachusetts General Hospital charged $80 a day for a semiprivate room. Now the bill is $189 a day. Ten years ago, a baby could be delivered at Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center for $350 in hospital bills, exclusive of the obstetrician's fee. But when 6-lb. Priscilla W. was born there in a fine uncomplicated delivery, she cost her parents $2,800?more than $450 a pound?$1,300 of that for the hospital...
...weeks ago, a slide of a bill was projected on a screen. A tumor specialist quickly asked why the hospital had ordered two computerized blood tests when one?the cheaper one, at that?would have sufficed. In a very different cost-cutting program, New York University Medical Center has designated 104 rooms in a new building for a "cooperative care" experiment in which patients who are well on their way to recovery but cannot yet leave the hospital are looked after by friends and relatives rather than staff members...
Karl Deutsch is now at the peak of his career. His spacious second floor office in Littauer Center is lined with books about subjects he pioneered, and boxes and file cabinets store his countless articles and essays. His secretary handles his correspondence, including innumerable invitations to participate in professional conferences. There are more requests for his time than he can handle in a working day, and yet he always tries to find time for everybody. He is currently completing a three-year term as president of the International Political Science Association, and he is a past president of the American...