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...estimated that the chance of such a serious accident is about one in a million, or equal to the chances of meteor hitting a major U.S. city head on. But the point of "The China Syndrome" is that factors of human error and corporate greed make that chance much higher...
...most people, serious illnesses are rare, and when they do happen insurance cushions the blow. The average patient pays only 8 per cent of his hospital bill, though this fee can still seem catastrophic. Government and consumers increasingly take on difference in costs passed on in taxes and higher-priced non-medical goods. For example, a Ford car in 1968 cost about $20 more because of employee health insurance. Last year, the car would have cost $150 more for those benefits. The relative invisibility of health care costs insulates the health industry from public pressures which might force...
...those students who came to Harvard with serious literary ambitions Expos 13 was a valuable step, in many cases an unstated prerequisite, to higher fiction writing courses. The fiction-course route has always been sufficiently arduous and narrow. Enrollments have always been limited. Now this route will be closed as the apparent consequence of administrative squabbles. With the termination of Expos 13 the number of fiction sections offered at the College will be cut in half...
...actually see Birdy fly. We believe that he speaks canary language, that he understands the birds' system of time, that he knows what it is like to soar higher than the trees and that Perta, the yellow canary with the green eyebrows, can inspire Birdy to love and wet dreams. We believe he is a bird...
Once sacred Maoist principles are being abandoned for more efficient but heretical ideas such as industrial competition, higher incentive wages, and productivity bonuses. Private plots on which agricultural workers can raise and sell their own crops are making a comeback. Companies are now allowed to withhold some profits to invest as they wish. An editorial in the People's Daily urged further progress down the capitalistic road. "In the process of competition," it said, "a small number of enterprises will be eliminated because their products are of poor quality. What's wrong with that? It will encourage...