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Last week's costly extravaganza, swollen with hordes of simultaneous translators, government aides and journalists, managed to affirm Western solidarity, and it certainly did no harm to Ronald Reagan's chances for reelection. But for all its lofty declarations, it made little progress in finding solutions to the pressing problems the world's major industrial nations face...
...Mexicans have only grudgingly accepted the refugees into Chiapas, one of the country's poorest regions. The government has allowed them to stay because mass deportations would harm Mexico's reputation as a haven for exiles...
...Anatomist Allan Basbaum, of the University of California, San Francisco. "Not to have pain at all is a disaster." But when the pain alarm fails to shut off, it ceases to serve a useful function. "Uncontrolled pain," Basbaum notes, "is also a disaster." In fact, it can do serious harm. The acute pain that follows surgery can, for example, sometimes interfere with a patient's ability to breathe, as well as contribute to nausea and add to the strain on the heart. Chronic pain often leads to an endless cycle of anxiety, depression, loss of appetite, profound fatigue...
University officials say Harvard has been slow to take the lead in responding to the Defense and other departments new regulations, primarily because Harvard has escaped concrete harm. But with President Bok chairing the AAU next year and Shattuck's interest in the issue, this is expected to change...
...easy to summarize what we were taught at Harvard. The individual free, in the sense that he makes his own truth, can follow his whims, of whatever does not harm his fellows. For away is the world, it does not change and he cannot change it. He develops his personal vision, creates works that reflect it, and analyzes the individual visions of others...