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...attacks would disrupt the balloting, but the campaigning took place in an atmosphere of relative normality. The military front remained quiescent. U.S. battle deaths dropped to 52 for the past week, the lowest toll in 4½ years. The cities were also peaceful. President Nguyen Van Thieu has defused chronic student protest by releasing jailed students. He also succeeded in mollifying the raucous disabled war veterans, who roll to their riots in wheelchairs, by granting them more liberal benefits...
...helping hand. Fish farming is hardly new; as long ago as 475 B.C., a Chinese scholar-statesman named Fan Li wrote the first how-to-do-it treatise. But as marine biologists seek to exploit its full potential -especially as a way of relieving the world's chronic shortage of protein-water farming, or aquaculture, looms as an ever more important source of food...
Even in the age of chronic protest, few Americans know the rules for public demonstrations. It is not surprising. The First Amendment firmly guarantees every person the right to speak freely, assemble peaceably and petition the Government for redress of grievances. Yet there is no constitutional right to express dissent at any particular time or place. State or municipal governments are free to restrict almost any public speech or conduct that clearly threatens to incite violence or impede some of society's other legitimate interests...
...ranker injustices of ageism can be alleviated by governmental action and familial concern, but the basic problem can be solved only by a fundamental and unlikely reordering of the values of society. Social obsolescence will probably be the chronic condition of the aged, like the other deficits and disabilities they learn to live with. But even in a society that has no role for them, aging individuals can try to carve out their own various niches. The noblest role, of course, is an affirmative one - quite simply to demonstrate how to live and how to die. If the aged have...
Actually, the overwhelming majority of the aged can fend very well for themselves. Only 5% of aged Americans live in institutions; perhaps another 5% remain bedridden at home. True, four out of five older people have a chronic condition. "But chronic diseases must be redefined," says Duke's Dr. Eisdorfer. "I've seen too many depressed people leaving their doctor's office saying, 'My God, I've got an incurable disease.' Chronic illness gets confused with fatal illness. Life itself is fatal, of course, but as far as most chronic illnesses go, we simply don't know what they...