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...figures. Food prices jumped a startling 1.7% in July, mainly because of hefty increases in meats, poultry and vegetables. Gasoline prices climbed even faster: 4.3%, or an average of 2.4? per gallon. The cost of fuel oil, used cars and medical services also continued moving up at a double-digit annual pace...
When a child's fingertip is sliced off or smashed in a car door, most doctors sew up the wound or attempt to reconstruct the digit. But the best treatment for such injuries may be none at all. Writing in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Dr. Cynthia Illingworth of the Children's Hospital in Sheffield, England, reports that until the child is age eleven or so, a fingertip that is not damaged below the first joint will often regenerate spontaneously if left alone. Thus instead of suturing up smashed or amputated fingertips, Dr. Illingworth and her colleagues merely...
Although the consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 10% in June, no one really expects another round of double-digit inflation. But the figures do indicate more inflation than had been anticipated. One top Ford Administration economist, who had been estimating that prices would be rising at a 6% rate at year's end, now privately predicts 7%. Any prolonged new surge of inflation could threaten the recovery itself by making consumers turn cautious and reduce the spending that has been lifting the nation out of its slump...
Notice those peculiar markings that are appearing on all sorts of products on store shelves-the striped codes with ten-digit numbers that have rechristened such items as a giant-size box of Tide as 37000-91220 and a can of Campbell's tomato soup as 51000-00011? They are part of an automated pricing and check-out system that food-industry officials hope will one day yield impressive cost savings (TIME, Dec. 30). Though it is still experimental, consumer groups are already opening fire on the system, which they fear will confuse shoppers by eliminating price markings...
...companies. Combined with a slightly easier monetary policy, the measures should be enough to help trigger a modest recovery during the second half of the year (production rates already are inching up, and jobless rates down). But they are hardly sufficient to bring back the halcyon era of double-digit G.N.P. growth that Japan enjoyed before it was rocked by twin economic shocks in the early 1970s. Dollar devaluations and yen revaluations raised prices of Japanese goods abroad and cut into export earnings; that plus quintupled oil prices touched off the inflationary explosion...