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...time students" scores above 70 on the draft exam he will be safe as an undergraduate, while he must score above 80 to continue through graduate school. The other route lets a student stay in college if he can maintain an average which places him in a certain upper fraction of the class...
...Instead of narrow-mindedly designing planned obsolescence and physical deterioration into manufactured goods to maintain the growth of our economy, why can't we invest a fraction more of our great personal and corporate income in the futures of the underprivileged in this country and in some of the underdeveloped nations...
...space industry, only a fraction of the scientific professionals are productive. Hundreds of brainy M.I.T., Caltech and other technological grads are recruited each year only to be mothballed in the employer-contractors' private skill banks, as elements in "capabilities" to be asserted in possible or problematical future competitions for new public business. Meanwhile, the eager, brilliant young men gradually sink into time-serving desuetude, their skills and motivation deteriorating, their lavish salaries charged to taxpayer-supported projects of questionable usefulness in which they play no real part...
...virtually the only medicine effective in preventing viral infections. Trade-named Symmetrel, it has been tested on more than 3,000 human subjects, and has shown remarkable effectiveness in protecting against Asian-A influenza. For an adult the effective dose of amantadine is 200 mg. a day, a tiny fraction of an ounce...
...trouble is that a tiny fraction more is dangerous; even a young adult in good condition suffers severe side effects with a dose of only 300-400 mg. The reactions observed among medical students, reports the University of Illinois' Dr. George Gee Jackson, "were predominantly alterations of the emotional state and of cerebration. These students complained of inability to concentrate and depression. Several described sensations of depersonalization and altered body image. There was a remarkable degree of associated anxiety." At doses of 400 mg., nearly every volunteer suffered such effects. Fortunately, the effects subside in a few hours...