Word: mississippi
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...across the country, thereby possibly reducing the migration of the poor from states with low benefits to areas with high payments (in one important program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, New York State offers benefits of $71.75 for each member of the family, as compared with $8.50 in Mississippi...
...maritime subsidies, which now cost about $500 million a year, money largely ill-spent. Also due for pruning is the farm bloc's annual harvest of $3.5 billion in subsidies, two-thirds of which goes to farmers with incomes of more than $20,000. The fact that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland's plantations receive $157,930 a year for not growing cotton - while some of his constituents go hungry - ought to be reproach enough. Ironically, the Agriculture Department is also spending millions to improve big-scale Southern commercial farms, thus driving Negro farm laborers...
Rocky Mountain spotted fever got its name for the good and simple reason that it was first identified as a distinct disease among residents of the mountain states. For years, however, a majority of the cases have occurred east of the Mississippi. Now a disproportionate number are being reported from Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket...
Marijuana itself is so variable in potency that the National Institute of Mental Health announced last week that it will have five standard strains grown under contract at the University of Mississippi. At the Research Triangle Institute in Durham, N.C., extracts-including THC-will be prepared from this pot, and the N.I.M.H. will let a limited number of qualified medical researchers test the products, under strict control, on human subjects. That way, N.I.M.H. hopes eventually to find out what are the standard, predictable effects of pot and its various derivatives, including genuine...
...Wellford is back from Mississippi and will hold a review session for his sections, 10 a.m. Saturday in Quincy House Seminar Room...