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Honnet says that the number of students coming to Harvard who either have eating disorders or develop them is increasing. "The incidence at Harvard parallels incidences in the population as a whole," she says. Indeed recent studies found that 75 percent of the fourth grade girls in a San Francisco school were dieting. Other studies indicate that even if the number of people with outright disorders is not increasing dramatically, the number of people on diets who weigh a normal amount is large and growing...
...service branches and ride herd on a Pentagon bureaucracy that has produced $640 toilet covers and $7,600 coffee pots. In another report to be released this week, the Packard commission charges that "all too many of our weapons systems cost too much, take to long to develop and by the time they are fielded, incorporate obsolete technology...
...blacks, it should stop pressuring him publicly. Left alone, Rodgers argued, he would appoint more blacks, but he does not want to appear to be caving in to their demands. Apparently persuaded, Jackson told TIME last week that he was willing to give Rodgers a "grace period to develop his program" while turning up the heat elsewhere...
...President contends that as long as nuclear weapons are needed for deterrence, the U.S. must test them. Because they are highly complicated devices with electrical, mechanical and chemical components that can develop glitches, Reagan argues, that "a limited level of testing assures that our weapons are safe, effective, reliable and survivable...
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger has stressed the country's need to develop increasingly effective warheads and "modernize our tactical nuclear weapons." Testing is also necessary to develop systems like the nuclear- generated X-ray laser, which may prove critical to the President's Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. In addition, Weinberger's deputy Richard Perle points out that testing more precise warheads has allowed the U.S. to reduce its overall megatonnage by 75% in the past two decades. "That," says Perle, "makes for a far safer and more stable world." Supporters of a ban counter that it would...