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Thanks to tireless and often unappreciated effort, refugee camp conditions are much improved, but refugees still live as political hostages in an atmosphere of hatred. Egypt's President Nasser still says, "The sole way of settling the refugee problem is by restoring the land, which was stolen, to its owners," but he hardly expects any more to conquer Israel. U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, avoiding the inflamed question of repatriation altogether, suggests that to get the refugees off the dole, UNRWA's vocational training program should be greatly expanded. Then if UNRWA disappears, a new agency, possibly with...
...problem has been complicated by the fact that people live longer nowadays. In the past, it was expected that a man would not live much past 70, but today youngsters of eighty and ninety have not yet lost their mental keeness. Many emeritus professors still lead full and active lives. If they are not studying or lecturing, they are often traveling or catching up on all the reading they missed while busy teaching. Because of the high cost of scientic experiment, not all retiring professors can be fully accommodated. However, unlike the old soldier, the old scholar refuses to fade...
...Algerians realized that American students live in an atmosphere of political and social equilibrium, and that no life-or-death issue rises between them and their books. Yet the very recognition of our advantages should, they felt, produce a sense of moral responsibility. As two rebels with a cause, they saw no lack of issues for the American student. Far from wanting idealistic American undergraduates to grab shotguns and set sail for Algeria, they could only ask repeatedly why we remained inert before such a problem as integration. With this issue at stake, how, M. Aitchalal asked, can a campus...
Even when plutonium is stored in a carefully designed container, workers live close to catastrophe. Each small chunk of plutonium must be kept a respectful distance from the others, lest they combine to form the critical mass that sets off an atomic reaction. Even a human body in the wrong place can reflect enough neutrons into a chunk of plutonium to set off a chain reaction that could kill everyone in the lab with a blast of radiation...
...priesthood ("I couldn't see it through for psychological reasons") and a three-week protest walkout (he objected to the installation of a TV set in the priory), Everson has served faithfully, washing dishes, scrubbing floors, making beds and working in the print shop. He explains: "I live, under obedience, the life of a vowed brother. But I am not vowed. I could leave any time, or they could send me away...