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...violence (the insurrection of the sixties) that forced Harvard to honor a small fraction of its responsibility to black people by increasing its black enrollment in the first place. It is violence that enforces the rules of property ownership with which Harvard constantly indoctrinates its students. In the long run, it is also violence which is used to squash or demoralize any serious, united movement of black students which challenges these property relations, property relations which exploit our people. We certainly don't have to look far for proof of the interdependence of the vested interests controlling the state...
...transmission, in which one molecule that is growing, or adding units to its chain, can stop and pass its growing power on to another. Industrial researchers are using Flory's discoveries to develop fibers that may prove to have three times the strength of nylon but only a fraction of its weight. Flory, at Stanford since 1961, is currently studying the polymers in living organisms. Because skin, bone and muscle fibers are made up of long-chain molecules, his work could conceivably lead to the day when man will be able to simulate them in laboratories...
That battle apparently united the students and the administration. There seems to be no need for any administrative offices or structures dealing especially with women, or for committees considering policy changes, and only a tiny fraction of the women at Princeton have shown any interest in the Women's Center. And even the women at the Center have few gripes and say they do not feel Princeton is a male-dominated institution. As one of the Center's staffers put it, "This place definitely has a co-ed feel...
...faltering economy. The country's work force is only about 3 million, and unemployment has been rising rapidly. Hundreds of small businesses have closed, and large companies are not expanding. Says one Lisbon businessman with companies in Africa: "We could not employ in Portugal more than a fraction of our people from down there who have asked us for jobs...
Still, the number of TV and stage performers remains a fraction of the conjuring work force. Most well-paid magicians work at trade shows, parties and conventions where the fees can reach $2,500 per diem. Dick Gustafson, a former chemist, derives a nearly six-figure income from trade shows. "It's no trick," he insists. "For example, I link steel rings together at a show to demonstrate how a chemist will link molecules together to make fibers for, say, Du Pont. Sometimes I float my wife in the air to emphasize the lightness of a fabric." Conjurer Milbourne...