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Correcting such inequities is difficult because it requires the read-justment of the recruiting procedures that athletic departments like Harvard's have used for decades. In essence, schools need to recruit more female athletes and increase University funding to reflect this change...
...even desirable for Japan or some other country to be ahead of America on any number of measures. But when America's economy is falling behind, when we have no long-range game plan to support industries in which we could have a comparative advantage, when we lack read-justment programs to provide retraining and future employment for those working in declining industries, we are in deep trouble. A weak economy leads all segments of America to fight for their share of a declining pie to the detriment of civic morality, optimism and benevolence in which Americans once took pride...
...subject of abnormal psychology, seeing it instead as an appropriate area for social psychology. Gay people are indistinguishable from heterosexuals on any available valid measure of personality. The once popular opinion that homosexuality is a pathological condition, or even associated with such broad labels as "neurosis" or "malad-justment," is heavily contradicted by psychological evidence...
...homosexual and bisexual variations as common across many cultures, and well within human adaptations which are quite normal. Distinguished anthropologists who have persuasively articulated this position include Ashley Montagu and Margaret Mead, who has stated that she considers fear and condemnation of sexual variation to be a destructive malad-justment...
...hehostats (each of which is made 180 individual mirrors) loses its lock on the sun, these tiny electric eyes inform a minicomputer, which in turn controls a pair of hydraulic pumps that can rotate and tilt the heliostat into th proper position. Only one manual ad justment is needed to operate the heliostats. It is made at the end of the day, when they must be reset to face the position of the next day's sunrise...