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...luly 5] made me see red. It is a prime example of technology running wild. As a quadriplegic, I can state that most of us can operate the joystick control on the battery-powered chair pictured by means of slight adaptations, the most extensive of which would be a lever reaching from the control to mouth level where it can be manipulated by tongue or lips. The costs of these adaptations are negligible compared with the $700-$900 price quoted for the Sight Switch, and they have the additional advantage of allowing the rider the luxury of seeing where...
...Administration has postponed a decision, partly because it sees the Mid dle East power balance differently from the Israelis, partly because it considers the Phantoms a useful lever for moving Israel into a Suez Canal agreement. The Phantom decision is still, so to speak, up in the air, but Jerusalem hopes for some progress when Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco makes a scheduled visit this week. "We don't expect Sisco to come flying over in a flotilla of Phantoms," says a government official. "But we do hope that he will come with words of encouragement...
...Ambassador to Washington Yitzhak Rabin last week inquired into the status of an Israeli request for an additional $500 million in economic aid and military supplies. Washington has so far held back on approving the request. With some justification, Jerusalem fears that the U.S. might use aid as a lever to push Israel into a settlement with Egypt on terms less than satisfactory to Israel...
VERNON FORD, 24, has not altered his goals much either. A basketball player and leader of black students at Northwestern, he aimed to use his education as a lever to help blacks. While teaching and counseling at an experimental "free" school for high school dropouts in his old neighborhood, Chicago's West Side, he earned an M.A. in sociology at Northwestern. But he soon decided that teaching and sociology by themselves did not help kids expelled from school because "they didn't have the power to holler" or kids who got into trouble with the law for being out late...
...seem, there are researchers who claim to have discovered something better than sex. At McGill University in Canada, Psychologist James Olds used electrodes to locate specific "pleasure centers" in the brains of rats, and then allowed the animals, electrodes still in place, to stimulate themselves by pressing a lever. Given a choice, the rats preferred this new pleasure to food, water and sex. Some pressed the lever as many as 8,000 times an hour for more than a day, stopping only when they fainted from fatigue...