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...committee will now consist of four undergraduates, two graduate students, and seven Faculty members. One of the Faculty members will serve as chairman and cast a vote in the event...
...been kind of a rotten year for film. I think we tend not to notice that because the most interesting movies playing around Cambridge are always old ones. But unless you live in New York, your Christmas movie diet may consist of a bunch of first and second-run movies that are mostly third-rate...
...data, including temperatures, composition, density and distribution of the atmosphere. They will be passing through hostile territory. At higher altitudes the probes will be whipped by winds with velocities that may be as high as 360 km (220 miles) an hour. They will drop through clouds thought to consist of sulfuric acid droplets. But their real test will come near the planet's surface, where temperatures reach 480° C (900° F) and the atmospheric pressure is nearly 100 times that of earth's at sea level...
...difficult to determine and open to bitter dispute. One of the most widely accepted estimates has been made by Economist Murray Weidenbaum, head of the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University. He divides the costs into two categories. The first is administrative costs, which consist of visible federal spending on regulatory agencies. These have rocketed from $745 million in 1970 to $4.8 billion this fiscal year. Large as this is, it only hints at the real burden...
...mention of the British National Health Service (NHS) is that, together with the rest of the welfare state, it is responsible for Britain's post-war economic decline. Yet beyond this criticism, many Americans have little conception of what comprehensive national health services like those in Britain consist of, and cling to the conviction that socialized medicine is a bad thing. This tends to mean that they are willing to put up with a system that is costly, uneven, and in which the majority of the population are not even fully covered by health insurance. Consequently, ill-health is something...