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...never wanted the attention to be on him as a person,” Heymann said. “He wanted it to be on the job he had to do or the labor law he was teaching...
After Cox was fired as the Watergate special prosecutor in 1973, he taught constitutional law at HLS. Cox also served on the faculty at Boston University Law School and wrote several books, including Law and the National Labor Policy, Civil Rights, the Constitution and the Courts, Freedom of Expression, and The Court and the Constitution...
They make it sound almost like Lent: "the summer driving season." It sounds compulsory or something, as though I might lose my citizenship if I haven't clocked at least 1,200 miles of continuous interstate travel by June 30 and finalized plans to double that number by Labor Day. This shouldn't be a problem for me, fortunately, because I love taking road trips in any season, but what if sometime around the end of May, say, I'm physically incapacitated? Will my absence on the roads be noticed...
...through all the protective layers and achieve results. He has shown that in an increasingly computerized, complex and impersonal society, one persistent man can actually do something about the forces that often seem to badger him--that he can indeed even shake and change Big Business, Big Labor and even Bigger Government. "My job is to bring issues out in the open where they cannot be ignored," says Nader, chopping his hands, as he often does when he speaks. "There is a revolt against the aristocratic uses of technology and a demand for democratic uses...
That remained the case practically up to the present. It's really only in the past 100 years that cars and other machinery have dramatically reduced the need for physical labor. And as exercise has vanished from everyday life, the technology of food production has become much more sophisticated. In the year 1700 Britain consumed 23,000 tons of sugar. That was about 7.5 lbs. of sugar per capita. The U.S. currently consumes more than 150 lbs. of sweetener per capita, nearly 50% of which is high-fructose corn syrup that is increasingly used as a sugar substitute. Farmers armed...