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...study, which was financed by the American Association of Chocolate Manufacturers and the National Dairy Council, is the first to examine the relationship between chocolate milk containing sugar and dental decay...
Poverty and discrimination condemn blacks to bad housing. Less obvious factors include the decay of public housing (50.8% occupied by blacks) and maladroit federal programs, such as urban renewal and highway building, which razed 800,000 city units between 1949 and 1967. The Government has also speeded the white exodus from cities. Since World War II, it has financed only 800,000 urban units, while insuring the financing of 10 million suburban homes. Fortunately, the Federal Housing Administration has begun to change this pattern. More than 50% of FHA's mortgage insuring activity has lately been shifted to properties...
...printed card that reads: "The only purpose for your activity is to get results." He has always followed that advice. A native lowan and Purdue University engineering graduate, Johnson worked as an assistant commissioner of health in New York City, where he learned firsthand about another environmental hazard: urban decay. His practical experience and accomplishments in New York made him a natural choice to head the environmental service after it was created in July...
...troubled central cities, the most visible housing difficulty is of an entirely different order -a lack not of buildings but of neighborhoods deemed fit to live in, even by the poor. As a consequence, acres of houses and apartment buildings have been abandoned by their owners and tenants to decay...
...urban ills: crime, shifting populations, economic squeeze and the American propensity to waste. Nearly all of today's abandoned houses are in ghettos or neighborhoods in transition as the white population departs. But it is far too simplistic to blame only the influx of black families for the decay and abandonments. Most slum neighborhoods were near-slums long before their white residents moved away...