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...leading cause of death today. In 1978 alone, he estimated number of deaths due the cancer was five times higher than all American military deaths from the Vietnam and Korean wars combined. The government and the private sector pour billions of dollars yearly into a nationwide attempt to conquer this 20th century plague. Unfortunately: much of this well-intentioned money has been mishandled...
Activist Ngo Vinh Long '68, a social historian on China and Vietnam, began the day by telling the crowd of about 150 that "you can conquer a country, but you can't keep it and break...
...Israelis still approve of the war. For all the questions raised, most recognize the strategic gains won by expelling the PLO from Lebanon. The PLO is, according to its charter, at war with Israel and has vowed to destroy the Zionist nation. Israel went into Lebanon not to conquer a neighbor but to rid itself--and its neighbor--of a dangerous enemy...
...medical information to even the most remote villages. "What networks of railroads, highways and canals were in another age, networks of telecommunications, information and computerization ... are today," says Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. Says French Editor Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, who believes that the computer's teaching capability can conquer the Third World's illiteracy and even its tradition of high birth rates: "It is the source of new life that has been delivered...
Unlike Alexander the Great, Walter Elias Disney never ran out of worlds to conquer. This week, nearly 16 years after his death, the most ambitious of all the great fantasist's projects opens at Disney World in central Florida. Named Epcot Center, Disney's last, vast vision is a combination world's fair, theme park and dream factory executed at a cost to date of $900 million. Like the Magic Kingdom at Disney World and California's Disneyland, it is destined to become a part of the American experience, but with a difference. Unlike its predecessors...