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...payroll and operating expenses and pay off its notes and bonds. Yet so shaky is its credit that it may not be able to raise the money-with the prospect of skipping payday for city employees or even defaulting on its obligations. The one fleeting hope for a painless solution came crashing down last week when President Ford, after due expression of sympathy, rejected the city's request for emergency federal assistance...
...teaching device. In my high school, apathetic students and tired teachers banked their hopes on film, the new, fun, relevant medium. It promised to rescue us all from tedium. In history classes, especially, teachers began using films to replace the dry, outdated textbooks. Watching films became the painless way to absorb facts. But the films we watched were usually as boring as the textbooks we'd shoved aside. We watched films only to glean a few salient facts, and we never considered that films, as cultural artifacts, might be worthy of study in themselves. Films simply replaced textbooks as secondary...
...rather lucky 13 states have a generally painless form of taxation: the lottery. With tickets usually selling for 500 or $1, lotteries drum up huge state revenues. About half is spent on education, aid to the aged or other worthy purposes, and the rest is for prizes and operating expenses. Michigan has grossed $260 million since it started a lottery two years ago, and Pennsylvania each year sells $132 million worth of tickets. New York's annual ticket sales total $118 million; New Jersey's come to $112 million and Massachusetts' add up to $76 million...
...problem; under the clean air law, the automakers have until 1977 to produce a virtually pollution-free car. If state regulations requiring that old cars be fitted with effective antipollution devices are enforced, Rand's researchers suggest, then Los Angeles-area authorities need only take four relatively painless steps...
...allowed as much pain-killing drug as he wants, and that drug probably should be heroin, which is estimated to be four times as effective a painkiller as any alternative drug. "If a human being must die, it is surely better that he die in the illusion of painless pleasure-and heroin is very pleasurable-than in lonely agony...