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...scored its goals against the grain of play. Halfway through the first period, just after several Crimson shots had failed, the puck was in play behind the Crimson net. Harvard failed to clear the area in front of the goal crease. B.C. centered the puck, then scored on the rebound of a five-footer to take the lead...
Until the policy began to be gradually introduced, all Chinese peasants were grouped into production teams that worked the land in common. Each laborer earned work points, which were exchanged for a ration of grain and a small cash stipend. But in Jun Tan, as in an estimated 40% of China's villages, work points have now been abolished. Instead, each family has been allocated a plot of land to farm as it sees fit. The peasant gets seed and fertilizer free the first year; the second year the farmer uses his own money, or borrows...
...have been freed for other cash-producing activities. In the Jun Tan brigade Carpenter Liu Zhangying, 34, receives $212 a year building furniture. He explains: "Before, I had to hand over more than half of my carpentry income in order to get the work points I needed for my grain ration. Now I get to keep everything I earn as a carpenter." By combining farming on one acre of land with carpentry, Liu and his family are now making almost $1,200 a year, an astronomical figure by Chinese standards...
...poisons real or suspected. Amid the latest warnings about salt, sugar, too much protein and assorted baneful additives, one current bestseller, Jane Brody's Nutrition Book, sensibly advocates a return to a down-home simplicity: meat, fish and milk in moderation, plenty of green and yellow vegetables, grain and some kind of fruit. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, what's the most carcinogen-free of all?" Thousands of people have even abandoned markets, selecting organically grown guavas and "pure" rice in the nation's 8,000 health-food outlets...
...Pritikin Longevity Center in Santa Monica, Calif, is a self-taught nutritionist. He forbids all fats, salt and sugar, oils, most processed foods and dairy products, and discourages the use of tobacco, caffeine, sugar and salt substitutes and even vitamins. Devotees eat mainly fresh fruits, vegetables and whole-grain breads, hoping Pritikin is correct when he claims that the diet curbs heart disease, diabetes and hypertension. Doctors say more testing is needed to substantiate such claims. They also say the Pritikin Diet is unnecessarily restrictive, especially for healthy people. Says Nutritionist Myron Winick of the Institute of Human Nutrition...