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Anyway, when we last left me, I was in a California institution for the emotionally disturbed. In ascending order I was suffering from 1) underweight, 2) pneumonia, 3) debilitation, and 4) terminal sanctity. The first three were cured handily. My brother D.B. kept driving over from Hollywood with sandwiches and books; the books were supposed to cure No. 4. Perhaps they...
...unsuccessful cases the marriages were immature to begin with, Family Service reports. Both husbands and wives were dependent personality types who chose sterilization because it was easy, sure to work, simple to obtain and required no continued effort or selfdiscipline. They looked to the operation as a magic cure-all for problems ranging from sexual inadequacy to financial insecurity. Inevitably, they were disappointed...
...Meadows team offers a possible cure for man's dilemma-an all-out effort to end exponential growth, starting by 1975. Population should be stabilized by equalizing the birth and death rates. To halt industrial growth, investment in new, nonpolluting plants must not exceed the retirement of old facilities. A series of fundamental shifts in behavioral patterns must take place. Instead of yearning for material goods, people must learn to prefer services, like education or recreation. All possible resources must be recycled, including the composting of organic garbage. Products like automobiles and TV sets must be designed to last...
...Harlan, those rulings he opposed took the court outside its constitutional mandate. In his dissenting opinion in the one-man, one-vote reapportionment case, Harlan set forth his philosophy: "These decisions give support to a current mistaken view that every major social ill in this country can find its cure in some constitutional 'principle' and that this court should 'take the lead' in promoting reform when other branches of government fail...
...orixas can be called forth, through chanting, drumming and prayer, to inhabit the bodies of the worshipers, cure them of ailments, and give them personal advice. The worshiper seeks to become a cavalo (horse), inhabited by a spirit, and enter into a semidivine state. In the more African rites, blood from sacrificial goats and chickens is drunk. One priestess customarily breaks a glass and dances on it barefoot with a devotee. In another cult, the priestesses are usually venerated prostitutes...