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...thread that runs through Beyond the Ivory Tower is a distinction between collective and individual action. Essentially, educated individuals in the university community have the right and should be encouraged to speak out on moral issues. They should write articles, collect petitions, organize debates, and engage in the intellectual discourse that provides the life-blood of any university...
More fundamentally, the aged have been misled for two generations into believing that Social Security payments constitute no more than a return to them of the payroll taxes that they have paid during their working years. This is dramatically untrue. The average retired person today can expect to collect lifetime benefits five times as great as the total taxes that he or she once paid, plus interest...
...inevitable. It could be changed by a renewed surge in birth rates, for example, or a continued rise in immigration by Hispanics and Asians, most of whom are young and who will work and pay Social Security taxes for many years before they collect benefits...
...airplane carrying relief supplies to Nicaraguan earthquake victims crashed on the last day of 1972, one of those killed was Pittsburgh Pirates' star rightfielder Roberto Clemente. That season, the baseball world honored Clemente--who had ended the previous season with a double off the Mets' Jon Matlack to collect his 3000th career hit--by renaming an award in his honor, having his former teammates wear his old number 21 on their sleeves, and inducting him into the Hall of Fame in an unprecedented special election...
...above the Wilders' house, on Bear Hill Road, Farmer Gaylen Brown is setting out to collect, from 1,000 buckets, the last of the maple sap. He pauses to bulldoze a passer-by out of the bottomless depths across from his house. The Browns have farmed these 175 acres for almost 70 years. His daughter Theresa, 19, and son Willis, 20, are the fourth generation of Browns on the place. "Mud season's not so bad as it used to be," says Brown. "We used to have to hitch up the horses to the wagon and draw...