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People often lose in competitive sports, as people often lose in life. Competitive sports provide an excellent way of learning to accept and cope with failure, as well as to experience success...
...against rising prices: a 16-page booklet titled A Consumer's Shopping List of Inflation Fighting Ideas. The guide's producer, Esther Peterson, 71, the feisty $51,000-a-year head of the Office of Consumer Affairs, says that the idea is "to help you cope" and to show people how to "stretch their food, housing, energy and health care dollars." Some of Peterson's advice for the inflation-worn...
...Wilson, mankind's greatest problem is that it is caught in the 20th century with a nature largely shaped by evolution to deal with ice-age problems. That nature, he says, "is a hodgepodge of special genetic adaptations to an environment largely vanished." How can humans cope? By discovering the programming built into the human brain and deciding which "censors and motivators" can and should be disobeyed. Only sociobiology, he concludes, can provide the "precise steering" to guide the human race...
...typical schoolboy memoir into a remarkably mature meditation on losses and gains. He slips easily into the minds and emotions of characters around Haye: the boy's stepmother, an old nanny, the sad, slightly vulgar daughter of an unfrocked clergyman. All, in varying ways, must struggle to cope with the presence of a person to whom the intolerable has happened. He too must struggle to grow into his tragedy...
...transit camp in Zambia before being sent on to Angola or Eastern Europe for further instruction. Nkomo heatedly denies Rhodesian charges that the young blacks are forced to join his organization at gunpoint. "That's just nonsense," he says. "We have more people than we need or can cope with efficiently...