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...contrary, the council maintains, the family's function has dwindled ever since the 18th century, when the group acted as a self-sufficient agricultural unit. Then, chores performed by children contributed to the economic well-being of the family; now, by contrast, kids are an enormous drain on their parents-each costing, by conservative estimate, at least $35,000 to support just through high school. Furthermore, as children spend increasing amounts of time outside the home, the parent is reduced to being a "coordinator without voice or authority...
...assert the authority of the lower house, New York's conservative Democratic Congressman John Murphy, chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, summoned Bunker and Linowitz to a hurriedly convened hearing. His committee, Murphy said, was not about to watch the canal "go down the drain" without some...
Making Do. The stock squeeze is not the only drain on Lance's resources. The genial Georgian, who made $450,000 the year before joining Carter's Administration but now must make do with his $57,500 Government salary (plus at least $150,000 in investment-related income), pays rent of $15,000 a year for a handsome town house in Georgetown. He owns an elegant 40-room mansion in Atlanta, a $100,000 house in Calhoun, Ga., and a vacation home on Georgia's exclusive Sea Island. Nor does Lance stint on entertaining. In June, with...
...Herman, discounts the argument that the experiments were heinous: scientists were teaching the mammals to understand two-word sentences by means of computer beeps, and the dolphins were on the verge of learning three-word sentences. All that research, which cost close to $500,000, is down the drain. Worse, says Herman. Kea and Puka, untrained to feed themselves and unable to communicate with Pacific dolphins, are doubtless dead by now, the victims of starvation, sharks -and mindless good intentions...
...science and politics. He juxtaposes democracy with natural selection and judges scientific work on its moral and political implications. Noting the dearth of scientist-activists, he says without apology, "The thing that gets me into those political issues is science. You cannot study nature as it goes down the drain...