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...recently torn apart by student protest. Meanwhile, around the world, there have been independent educational experiments-scuole senza muri (schools without walls) in Italy, radnicki universiteti (workmen's universities) in Yugoslavia, ensehanza en equipo (team teaching) in Spain, open schools in the U.S. Have such innovations helped education cure its ills and adapt to modern social and economic needs? If not, what might...
Doctors do not expect any of the experimental approaches now under investigation to yield a cure for all kinds of cancer. But most are confident that mortality rates for the disease will continue to drop. Dr. R. Lee Clark, a member of the board charged by the President with developing a national plan to combat cancer, predicts that wider application of known treatments could reduce the overall cancer death rate between 15% and 25% in the next five years. Only one out of every three patients can now expect to live five years after diagnosis. If Clark's prediction...
...Trying to cure the heroin problem by destroying the sources of heroin is like trying to cure the problem of overweight by destroying the sources of food. Fantastic...
...narcotics problem, the Government should make this standing offer: any confirmed addict who betrays his supplier to the authorities will be rewarded with a lifetime prescription to his favorite stuff, free injections at any federal dispensary (or the cure if he prefers). When pushers are afraid of their own customers, they will abandon the business and retail outlets will dry up. There might be complications, protecting informers from retaliation, but the principle is a sound one with potential for great impact on illegal trade...
...movement for social reform get blocked and channeled into educational strategies. The dramatic case is Head Start. Now I'm not against Head Start, I think it's a good program. The kids are having a good time and everything but I do not think it is a cure for poverty. I guess some of the people who promoted it did think it could cure poverty but I don't think they thought very hard about it. I would hope that the effect of the book would be to get people to think more realistically about the actual effect...