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...columnist is an important element of our coverage of him. Beyond that, says Laurence Barrett, who edited the story, "we set out to critique his performance and analyze his techniques. When you're writing about someone in your own business, there is always the danger of being unconsciously partial to his side of the argument...
...visit to Russia, which is scheduled to begin on May 22. "We approach the coming Soviet-American talks from a businesslike and realistic position," he said. Brezhnev expressed his desire for an agreement in the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. His statement lent support to speculation that a partial agreement, perhaps banning the installation of ABMs, will be ready for signing by the time of Nixon's visit...
Having forced oil companies to swallow two major price increases over the past year, the eleven nations that sit atop the world's rich pools of oil are now demanding a piece of the companies themselves. Their goal is "participation,", which is merely another way of describing partial, and probably increasing nationalization of the U.S. and European firms that drill in their territory. At a meeting in Beirut of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which ended last week, the largest consortium of oil companies, the Arabian American Oil Co., bowed to the inevitable and agreed in principle...
Nature may prefer women, but virtually every culture has been partial to men. That contradiction raises an increasingly pertinent question (as well as the hackles of militant feminists): Are women immutably different from men? Women's Liberationists believe that any differences-other than anatomical-are a result of conditioning by society. The opposing view is that all of the differences are fixed in the genes. To scientists, however, the nature-nurture controversy is oversimplified. To them, what human beings are results from a complex interaction between both forces. Says Oxford Biologist Christopher Ounsted: "It is a false dichotomy...
...Even partial legislation of marijuana (sale and public smoking would remain criminal acts) might cut the use of heroin by taking "the young marijuana user out of a criminal drug-using subculture...