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...congressional subcommittee laboring through forests of welfare statistics paused last week to report some disconcerting facts: a family of four in New York City, alert to their opportunities under welfare, Medicaid and a handful of other social-benefit programs, can harvest a yearly income of $8,959, an untaxed sum that is the equivalent of $11,500 in taxable wages. Such hypothetical rewards, in other words, operate as a real incentive not to work for a living. Indeed, the system makes it positively unprofitable to take a job, since that would result in massive disqualifications...
...these feeds, and perhaps corn as well. President Nixon acted after the Commerce Department reported that export commitments for June, July and August were so great that the nation was in danger of running out of the pea-shaped, yellow or green, protein-loaded soybeans before the next harvest begins in September...
When the Justices of the Supreme Court sat down to consider their current harvest of pornography cases, they found themselves in rare and unanimous agreement on one point: the procedures then in effect for handling the problem were a hopeless failure. Thus they concluded that the entire legal definition of obscenity had to be reexamined. Justice William Brennan, chief architect of the court's gradual course toward liberalization, argued urgently that virtually all pornography bans should be scrapped as constitutionally unworkable. With no less force, Chief Justice Warren Burger spoke in favor of stricter standards, "more concrete than those...
Thailand, a traditional supplier, has left her rice-buying neighbors in panic by halting exports to fill her own needs. China, usually an exporter, has also cut back sales because of a poor harvest last year. Because of the war, South Viet Nam must still rely heavily on buying U.S. rice...
...Constantine, foolish male, has apparently never read The Golden Bough. He keeps poking into the secrets of Cornwall Coombe until the full moon at harvest time. He is in deeper trouble than he knows. "They call it the Moon of No Repentance around here," says the local matriarch. "Come harvest, you take what there is - too late for repentance . . . there are some hereabouts who don't take kindly to a man who makes fun at our ways...