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...taboo. "In the first 80 pages of a newspaper, writers feel they can't report anything that reflects badly on minorities. So on our sports pages we're regularly reading about athletes who commit violence against women, but the stories don't mention that over 8,000 such acts occur across the country each day. Or that the rate of spousal abuse among professional athletes is actually lower than it is for society at large...
There's also a medical facility, which includes an operating table--onboard in case of emergency--and even a morgue, which unfortunately has seen service on a ship whose average passenger age is usually somewhere in the 60s. Happily, shipboard romances occur far more frequently than funerals. Widows typically outnumber widowers, but the ship's officers are always there for unescorted ladies...
SACCHARIN A lot of rats died to study saccharin, but so far no humans have joined them. Not only were the saccharin doses that caused cancer in the animals extremely high, but the manner in which the chemical crystallized in rat bladders simply did not occur in humans. With the risk disproved, saccharin fell from the list...
...Harvard deans have still maintained much of their divisional autonomy. FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles resisted Rudenstine's calls for financial aid reform for a solid year, until the dean was finally satisfied that a change should occur...
...only economic issue of importance. Reducing political deprivation can indeed help diminish economic vulnerability. There is, for example, considerable evidence that democracy as well as political and civil rights can help generate economic security, by giving voice to the deprived and the vulnerable. The fact that famines occur only under authoritarian rule and military dominance, and that no major famine has ever occurred in an open, democratic country (even when the country is very poor), merely illustrates the most elementary aspect of the protective power of political liberty. Though Indian democracy has many imperfections, the political incentives generated...