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...Today, 40 members of Parliament are Jews, as well as 61 knights and 20 peers of the realm. Although Jews are expected to congregate at their own country clubs, there is comparatively little overt anti-Semitism in Britain-one of the few nations where Jews were never forced to cluster together in ghettos...
Leading his flight of four F-105s on a mission 55 miles northwest of Hanoi one afternoon, the 40-year-old Kasler had completed his primary assignment of bombing a cluster of warehouses, and could have returned to his base in Thailand. As usual, however, his flight began prowling the countryside for "targets of opportunity." Spotting several trucks, the jets hit them and were looking for more when ground fire caught Kasler's wingman, and he ejected. Kasler circled the area to protect him until rescue helicopters could get in. When Kasler's fuel gauge hit "bingo" (minimum...
...physical space only. In a new book, The Hidden Dimension, Anthropologist Edward Hall points out that people and animals have a sense of psychic space, which differs from race to race, from species to species. Americans waiting for a bus will automatically space themselves several feet apart; Arabs will cluster. In studies conducted on animals, Hall notes that a population crisis occurs when this sense of psychic space is invaded by overcrowding. The birth rate drops and animals die by the score-apparently from stress alone. Something equivalent, suggests Hall, could happen if modern society began to feel itself psychically...
...third effect is the impetus toward group practice. I use the term here not to describe a financial arrangement or even a formal or informal arrangement for referral, but rather to describe the fact that groups of doctors tend to cluster in hospitals, in clinics and in professional buildings, and they do so because their needs are interdependent. It is not that each is dependent upon the other, but rather that each needs certain common services--x-ray, laboraory...
...stands twelfth among all nations. The life expectancy of U.S. men is only 18th in the world. In ratio of doctors to population, the U.S. ranks 15th. This low rating for the world's richest country is partly due to the fact that U.S. doctors tend to cluster in urban areas, where there are better hospital facilities and more opportunity for consultation, leaving a lethal shortage in remote and rural areas. Another reason is that the poor, the Negroes and other minority groups do not get the medical care available to most of the population...