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...other 80%. who are functionally rather than physically retarded, physicians can rarely find precise causes. A growing number of experts believe that this nonspecific, generally milder form of retardation, the primary symptom of which is poor intellectual performance, is a socioeconomic disease. While genetic, chromosomal and hereditary causes occur with about the same frequency in all racial and economic groups, retardation of unknown origin is nearly ten times more likely to occur among the poor, black and Spanish-speaking in the U.S. than among the white and affluent...
...Corporation then contended that Gulf's withdrawal from Angola, should it ever occur, would not "serve the cause of Angolan independence...
Adolescence and old age occur half a century apart, and seem to have nothing in common. In fact, says Psychoanalyst James Anthony of Washington University in St. Louis, the two stages are sometimes psychologically similar; present-day youngsters, far more often than their predecessors, show symptoms of aging long before they are out of their teens...
...narcissism of adolescence are two peaks in the development of human egotism." Hypochondria, too, can peak in adolescence as well as old age-which Anthony says "is not surprising because, in both, profound bodily alterations are taking place." Frequent changes in self-reliance also occur in old and in young; both alternate between battling for independence and leaning excessively on others...
...sinister drama, the Mafia's bloodletting accounts for only an insignificant fraction of the killings that occur every year in the U.S. The rising toll sometimes seems to validate H. Rap Brown's mordant dictum: "Violence is as American as cherry pie." In 1970 there were 16,000 criminal homicides in the nation-one every 33 minutes. With the carnage mounting-up 8% from the previous year and 76% over the decade-the U.S. is maintaining its long-held, unhappy distinction of leading advanced Western nations in the rate at which its citizens destroy one another. Philadelphia...