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...impact aid program, which was originally designed to help communities with military installations. The idea was to compensate such localities, since they could not tax the bases but had to provide many services for federal employees. Gradually, the scope of the program has expanded to give aid to communities???rich or poor ?with just about any kind of federal facility. There is no chance that the program will be reduced, however, since funds are distributed to 411 of the 435 congressional districts. The Administration asked for a cut of $51 million in the $780 million budget for impact...
This is the case with all fascist communities???Nazi or Communist?where man's value is always determined by social needs. People may be reduced to serfs or elevated to demigods: man may be turned into an automaton, obeying orders and doing his work without thinking. A man's humanity is inevitably lost as he ceases to be an individual worthy of the Responsibility and the vocation entrusted to him by God. The holy torch which he was created to bear and to use in lighting the way both for his fellow men and for posterity is extinguished...
Teacher troubles. Despite the spreading taxpayer revolt, teachers continue to close schools all over the country to dramatize their pay demands. They have struck in 93 communities???from Franklin, Mass., to Fremont, Calif?since January...
...lines, and roads clearly indicate that these communities are being built to last and that they will be linked to other ones still in the planning stage. The Palestinians are offered payment for the land, although most refuse it, complaining of unfairly low prices. The growth of these new communities???whether authorized by the government or not?is seen by many Arabs as further proof that Zionism means colonial expansion and that the only way Israel can be ousted from the territories is by force...
Common Colds last only three or four days and make the victims immune for three months, decided Wilson George Smillie (Harvard public health administrator) after studying four isolated communities???in Labrador at Spitsbergen on the Island of St. John in the Virgin Islands and in a southern Alabama hill town. In each community the inhabitants were free of colds until strangers arrived. The experience of Spitsbergen where men mine coal all year round was sharply defined. From November when the last heat departed until the day after the first boat arrived the next spring no miner had a cold, although...
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