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Morale, Too. For all their disregard of actual historical combat, war-gamers are intent on absolute accuracy in setting the stage. Gamers fight with rule book and tables of fire close at hand. The rules cover four basic elements of battle: movement, missile fire (usually cannon, rifle or arrow), melee (close combat) and morale. Movements, for example, are executed closely to scale; players deploy their soldiers according to careful tape measurement. The result of artillery fire is determined by tables compiled from actual battle experience, and by the toss of dice, to add the element of unpredictability. When plastic soldiers...
Irked at what they called "flagrant disregard for the safety of children," the Consumers Union and the Children's Foundation, both nonprofit groups, threatened last week to sue HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson for failure to use the emergency powers. "This is inexcusable inattention," said Morris Kaplan, Consumers Union technical director. "How many children have to be maimed or killed at Christmas before HEW acts...
Many people have said that when it comes to The Game you can disregard the records of both teams because anything can happen between these two teams. After watching The Game in 1965 I was not convinced. The following year in Cambridge, I watched The Game again from the stands due to an injury earlier in the season. On this cold and windy day, a strong Harvard team had little trouble with an undermanned Yale team. Although the score was only 17-0, the outcome was never really in doubt...
Harvard's position is not "neutral" -by purchasing non-union lettuce Harvard actively supports the oppression of migrant workers. The Administration has apparent disregard for the moral issues-what must be done now is convince Harvard of the extent of support for the boycott within the community. The small positive step of supporting the boycott will have a great effect in creating an atmosphere of trust within this community...
...macrobiotics, calories don't count. Neither does scientific nutritional balance, a concept that in the Age of Aquarius seems to carry little weight. "The only nutritional rules we disregard are modern ones," airily explains Elaine Mensoff, 21, who cooks for a Boston macrobiotic commune. Instead, macrobiotics concerns itself with those ancient complementary and opposite forces yin and yang, into which everything in the world is divided, including food. Sugar and most fruits, for example, tend to be very yin, while meats and eggs tend to be very yang. The trick is to balance one's menus to maintain...