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...emergency workers who confronted the human carnage were still trying to shake off the trauma. A few were paralyzed with anxiety whenever they tried to put on the uniform they wore on the day of the accident. Others suffered from hellish nightmares, insomnia, stomach ailments, migraines and partial amnesia about the terrible event. Says Alan Davidson, president of the Academy of San Diego Psychologists: "This has had an impact on the human psyche beyond what we can humanly know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Crash Trauma | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...variable meal plan could be enforced in any number of ways--meal coupons, ticket books, a compute system--but regardless of the method, a flexible meal system would require some major changes in dining hall security. A partial list of such changes would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feeling the Student Pulse | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

There is one partial explanation, and experience which the members of the People's Temple apparently shared: they had all suffered. Poor blacks, veterans, drug addicts, convicts-Jones built his church on that rock...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: The Wisdom That Is Woe... ...the Woe That Is Madness | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

...proposal for creating an environment in which teaching skills might receive unwonted (and, yes, in some quarters, unwanted) recognition at this University had actually gotten off the ground. Student interest and pressure can help keep it in flight, and may, indeed, be essential to keeping it in flight. But partial and, I'm afraid, somewhat automatic newspaper responses to what's being done to nurture this (for contemporary Harvard) rara avis, are not too helpful. Peter Dale Allston Burr Senior Tutor

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Different Recollection | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...money: "Each acre produces so little profit that all you can do is go for bigger acres and make sure that each acre produces more crop." So, besides buying land, he has purchased so much machinery that it requires a football-field-sized yard just to park it. A partial inventory: four 15-ton trucks, three pickup trucks, seven tractors, three center-pivot irrigators and three wheat combines that cost $30,000 each, yet are used only about two weeks a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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