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...called "Black Lung: Mining as a Way of Death," for example, a fuel company executive set up a new health plan for workers in the West Virginia and Pennsylvania mines he controls. In Washington, Coles is of ten consulted by powerful Congressmen of both parties. His testimony helped to launch the hunger crusade in the South in 1967 and to keep the migrant health program going when it was about to die in Congress two years...
...first time in modern history, Greek Orthodox and Jewish scholars met last week in Manhattan to launch an ecumenical dialogue. Sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, the informal talks produced, according to Father Robert Stephanopoulos, "a real sense of affinity we cannot always feel with Western Christians." Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, who originally suggested the dialogues, cited the two groups' common religious-ethnic heritage and Mediterranean background. Indeed, said Tanenbaum, though Greek and Hebrew philosophies are often regarded as opposites, rabbinic Judaism was actually a "creative synthesis" that absorbed some...
...that the empirical data cited support such a conclusion with a degree of probability acceptable in a sophomore paper on statistics, especially if the massive environmental differentials between racial groups are considered: I therefore find it wrong to launch an article of this sort at the very time when the rectification of racial injustices of the past is the over-riding concern of our country. Academic freedom, like other privileges, involves obligations as well as rights. These rights, as I see it, do not offer a franchise to write lightly, on the basis of the most sketchy evidence, on propositions...
...NASA last week ordered a month's delay, until April 16, in the St. Patrick's Day launch of Apollo 16, citing problems with the astronauts' suits, the emergency jettison system and a battery in the lunar lander...
...recruiters begin their annual quest to sign up the best managerial and technical talent from the graduating class. At some schools, according to college placement officers, recruiting should rise slightly from 1971's recession-pinched level. But graduates will still find this a difficult year in which to launch a career...