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What's to Be Learned. "Millions of people are taking these drugs for good reason, and to discontinue their use arbitrarily would cause untold hardship, if not outright tragedy," said Dr. Dunphy. "All of us must be entirely responsible in reporting any information on the subject. Such information must be kept in context and in perspective." To keep the rat studies in perspective, cancer experts reminded their colleagues that rat cancers do not necessarily behave the same as human cancers, and there is even evidence that in some cases they react in a way that is exactly the opposite...
...lead U.S. culture to greatness; the system that has seduced so many good writers and artists into working for corporations and their ad agencies, thus creating "a sort of debased intellectual class who, by way of their knowledge and skill, have become rather the writing hands of business, than outright businessmen"; and the great stress placed on the chap marks of education "with the B.A. a tollgate to a business career, the Ph.D. to an academic one." Essentially good humored and tolerant, Kronenberger charges other men with folly rather than outright evil, and recognizes that the very extremism that often...
...president of the Chamber of Commerce during the darkest days. Under his determined guidance, a 550-acre site near town was bought for $10 an acre as an "industrial development park." Not long after, the Pennsylvania state legislature passed a law providing loans to towns that could scrape up outright contributions from townspeople-as well as bank loans-to attract new industry. Dessen got a local organization going to get the money, dubbed it CAN DO, then spent three weeks trying to dream up some words to fit the initials. Finally he came up with the coherent if colorless label...
...utterly neglected' or allowed to fall into 'utter destitution.' Long centuries later, our great nation still has what this year it has become fashionable to call pockets of poverty. Our society is shamed and weakened by their existence, whether they be patches of outright human misery or whether they be areas where prosperity is a fragile thing because there simply aren't enough jobs to go around...
...Harvard wins and Princeton--league champion for the last seven years--loses to Dartmouth the Crimson will own the title outright...