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...protoplasm, frozen in a childlike trance." Summing up the sentiments of many population experts, Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich (who has had himself sterilized) concludes that "if we don't do something dramatic about population and environment, and do it immediately, there is just no hope that civilization will persist...
...symptomatic relief only. Until something is done to limit the monopoly powers of labor unions, hack away at bloated budgets with their expansionary deficits and multiplier-effect powers, and restore market pressures to industries currently propped up by subsidies and tariffs, the pressures that created the present situation will persist...
After an uneasy half-century under this arrangement, the age-old religious hatred, social injustice and tribal attitudes persist, making future peace a questionable prospect. In 1615 Barnaby Rich wrote in his Anatomy of Ireland: "The diseases of Ireland are many, and the sickness is grown to that of a contagion that is almost past cure." His admonition, sadly, is still relevant...
Nevertheless, rumors of coups persist as a kind of spectral presence. In a showdown, however, most observers feel that the military would not back Ky but would either remain neutral or support President Thieu...
That archetype will doubtless persist for a while elsewhere, but alas, he will soon be replaced by a transient imitation in one of his strongholds, New York City. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York-the first in the U.S. formally to do so-announced this month that pastors will henceforth serve for fixed terms of six years, and that none can serve more than two terms in the same parish. Progressives hailed the change, noting that it would allow younger priests to move up more quickly to pastoral positions and give older pastors an honorable excuse for moving...