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...tall, striking mother of two. She bent down, tore off the printout, held it lightly as a feather. I peeked. Eureka! There it was, the National Debt -- $1,823,105,258,488.19, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1985, 11 a.m. When Marsha was born in 1956 the Debt had been only one-seventh as big. Did the burden crush her, I blurted? Not really, she said. She whisked it across the hall to be fed into more computers, which ultimately spewed it out to cringing auditors and suffocating finance ministers around the globe. Then what? Well, said Marsha, in a little while...
...One-seventh of Lahore, capital of the Punjab, had been destroyed. Scores of nearby towns and villages had been razed. War-or rather, competitive massacre-between Moslems and Sikhs had reached a pitch of horror that made the Indian Mutiny of 1857 look like a mere street brawl. In two weeks, between 40,000 and 150,000 people had been killed in the Punjab. Most of the bodies were too hacked and charred to be recognized. At least a million were homeless...
...would not see his wife again. He was in the final stages of cardiomyopathy, a progressive deterioration of the heart muscle. Clark's skin appeared blue from lack of oxygen, fluid was collecting in his vital organs, and his ravaged heart could pump only one liter of blood a minute, about one-seventh the normal rate. When Clark's heart started fluttering abnormally a day before the implantation was scheduled, DeVries decided the operation could not wait. His patient, he said, "probably would have been dead by midnight...
Unemployment is not America's No. 1 economic worry. A budget deficit projected at $91.5 billion, or nearly one-seventh the total 1982 budget, has a greater potential for destroying the American political system...
...although Harvard no longer hosts a unit of its own, it has kept up with this national trend. The Air Force ROTC program at MIT, which also accepts students from Tufts and Wellesley, has been especially successful in attracting Harvard students,who make up a little more than one-seventh of that division's 242 cadets...