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...used to give the individual an advantage over other candidates. Affirmative action is racism, plain and simple. It intensifies ethnic and sexual differences, creates tensions, and presents an image of the individuals it favors as pathetic and inadequate candidates in need of government help to get jobs and obtain positions in schools. None of these results is desirable and all are detrimental to minority and majority alike. Let's end affirmative racism and start working toward a system of evaluation where everyone is treated fairly on the basis of his abilities alone. Howard C. Williams...
...FIXATION. At present only legumes such as peas, beans and alfalfa-with the aid of a soil-dwelling bacterium called rhizobium-are known to be naturally capable of fixing nitrogen from the air-joining it to other substances to form compounds necessary for plant growth. Most other plants must obtain their nitrogen from natural and man-made fertilizers. But scientists are seeking to give more plants this nitrogen-fixing ability. At Utah's Brigham Young University, biologists are attempting to "infect" other species of plants with rhizobia. Scientists in England have isolated the segment of the rhizobial DNA that...
...ghetto), falls for Meredith Lord, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Lord, who is beautiful as well as political ("The cloth clung to and outlined her shapely legs with every sinuous stride"), is interested in Canfield not only for his aristocratic good looks but because he can help her obtain funding for her pet program, a medical-aid bill known as THC (Total Health Care...
...where the FCC processes the applications, conditions have been hardly less chaotic than they were in July 1863. Unopened envelopes overflowed into the ladies' lounge; the FCC fell two months behind. Last month the agency moved to cut the delay by allowing anyone who buys a set to obtain an immediate temporary permit on mailing in $4 and an application form...
...none of which has stood up in court. These trials--The Chicago 8, the Panther 21, the Harrisburg 7, Bobby Seale, and Huey Newton--not only deprived the left of its most capable leaders for crucial periods of time, but forced it to concentrate its energies and funds to obtain their releases. I do not want to argue that the New Left would have been dramatically more successful in terms of its long-range goals had the repression been less severe. Political movements which are well organized or possess a solid social base can survive even the most severe repression...