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...participate in the latest five-year international tin-pricing agreement. The U.S. also is leaning toward negotiating accords on several other raw materials. Despite these hopeful signs, however, the current rise in commodity prices is an unnerving reminder that the industrial world's recovery could conceivably self-destruct by going too fast...
...behavioristic potential. Pre-meds could all be stuck in one dorm, and the results would indicate much about the nature of the human and Harvard beasts. Would masses of pre-meds realize from this proximity to other pre-meds how crazy their grind is? Would they eventually self-destruct under heightened competition or would they just work harder...
...Well, as I look back, certainly there was this self-destruct attitude toward Mr. Johnson and it carried on into Mr. Nixon. I am not saying it is aimed at me, but I think there is a tendency as we look over the recent history that Presidents become very visible and very live targets. Now that is fine and it doesn't hurt individuals, but it certainly could hurt the presidency...
...himself open to charges of amateurishness. But there is nothing naive about the feeling for conditioned response and social context in the characterizations here. Scorsese, Robert de Niro and others give the streets a searing energy, a rat's den's sense of confinement, that drives people to self-destruct. The whole surface of this picture quivers with a violence on the edge of explosion...
Americans discard more than 3,000,000 tons of plastic every year. Most of it ends up in local dumps, creating mountains of nonrotting, nonrusting, immortal trash. Three years ago, a team of scientists led by a University of Toronto chemist designed a plastic that would self-destruct in direct sunlight; a company in Delaware offers a kind of cellulose that dissolves in water; another in Idaho is marketing a process that makes styrene products break down into photodegradable substances. But such products have been handicapped by high costs or limited applicability...