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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pollution), got to eat salt-heavy canned ham and beef jerky supplied to them by Chinese traders. Only in the second group did blood pressure increase with age. It was highest in the tribe that traditionally cooked its fish and vegetables in sea water. The tribes did not differ in weight or any other medically significant way. Says Page: "When we analyzed all the components of change, diet always showed up as the key factor...
...artists of De Stijl wanted to submerge their personalities in the collective. "Although we differ individually," wrote Van Doesburg in 1919, "we all live for the same cause. We should concentrate solely on that. Then attention is automatically diverted from our own personality." The cultural aim of these reductions and renunciations? In four words: to change the world. To a very small extent, the Stijl group succeeded in this, since its theory of design helped banish ornament from all objects of everyday use, egg-cups to architecture...
...last weekend's USSRA team nationals in Washington, D.C. work out for Harvard's men's squash squad? "Not so well for me, and not so well for the team," articulated freshman number-one David Boyum, and not many will care to differ with the precocious racket-wielder...
Since it became a full-fledged honor society in the mid-1800s, ΦBK's commitment to academic excellence has not wavered. Higher education in America is changing. Today the selection of an elite appears to be no easy task. Colleges differ markedly in quality. There are about 2,000 four-year institutions in the U.S. The national ΦBK office in Washington, D.C., has 20 file drawers full of applications for new chapters. But it now limits membership to 228 colleges and universities and will not grant any new chapters without personal visits to assess the quality...
Party rhetoric does not differ markedly from earlier pronouncements and warnings. "The abyss" has existed every since the August 1980 strike in Gdansk's Lenin Shipyards; it is the abyss of freedom which has proved far too deep for the Soviet players and their pawns. We can only lament that a genuine labor movement with broad national support and an innovative program has been so blatantly repressed by a state supposedly dedicated to its workers...