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Child abuse at the hands of parents or guardianshas become one of the leading causes of death or injury among babies and small children according to the most comprehensive national study to date of child deaths conducted by the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect. At least 2,000abused children, most under the age of four, die each year, which is more than die in car accidents, house fires, falls or drownings. Another 160,000 are either permanently disabled or seriously injured. Physical harm is most often inflicted by male caretakers who beat, suffocate or burn a young...
...University should not neglect international celebrities because they are invited to teach by a small department rather than one of the more well-known Harvard disciplines. Harvard's size and decentralized administration should not be an excuse for rudeness and lack of action. Perhaps next September students and faculty will realize that Maryse Condé was here at Harvard and, at the time, few people even noticed...
...they neglect a far more important facet of the large federal system--it absorbs shocks and distributes bumps in trends far more evenly than any small state system could. The federal government, with its unmatched powers of taxation and debt creation, will always be better equipped to deal with sudden onrushes of demand for social services than easily-bankrupted states...
...dinner conversation with TIME editors, Castro says capitalism ``is a catastrophe for the world'' and denounces its effects on the environment. In Europe we know that communism did nothing to preserve our planet. But we also know that ecological neglect was forced on the people of Eastern Europe as long as the two systems were competing for world domination. When communism ceased to be its adversary, capitalism should have changed its system of values. Instead, as Castro says, it keeps on ``digging its own grave...
...neglect of the flag, said Diefenbach in a letter to Vice Mayor Sheila T. Russell, was particularly offensive "in a city of a state which prides itself as a source of American tradition...