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...endless ridicule of Madame Mao's "criminality" and "stupidity" has been accompanied by press and radio reports in China's provinces accusing Chiang Ch'ing's supporters of widespread sabotage and inciting to riot. If only a fraction of these charges are true, there may be far greater chaos in China than most analysts have suspected. One broadcast from Shansi declared that followers of the Gang of Four broke into a meeting of the provincial Communist Party secretariat last summer and kidnaped top local leaders. Another broadcast reported that the gang "was the main root causing...
...taking place at less than 30 m.p.h., such as occur when a car hits a tree or light pole-but most head-on collisions between two cars are much more violent. Air bags are not effective in side swipes, back-end collisions, or multiple jolts (they deflate in a fraction of a second after the initial impact...
...encouraged by the initial results, but emphasizes that the use of the Fermilab accelerator for treating cancer is still highly experimental. No one can tell what, if any, long-term damage may result from the use of high-energy neutrons. Furthermore, neutron treatment is suitable for only a small fraction of cancer patients. Says Cohen: "Only 15% of patients now being treated with conventional radiation could benefit from neutron therapy. There has to be a localized cancer of a specific type." But in these cases, neutron irradiation seems to provide hope where there was little or none before. So, asks...
...equal in wealth and power equal in opportunity if not status." It goes without saying that no such America--where opportunity was equal for all--has ever existed; what is more disturbing is Fried's association of all these men with the same social prescription, to which only a fraction of them actually subscribed...
...active member of Sons of Liberty who wished to remain anonymous said Ergo is "too dogmatic. They adhere religiously to Rand's senile ideas." He and White agreed that Ergo represents a fraction of the libertarian spectrum, even though the spectrum claims only 40 to 50 members at Harvard and MIT combined. Perhaps for this reason there has been little interaction and co-operation between libertarians at the two campuses. Several Harvard libertarians contacted said they had never heard of Ergo...