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...issue of emigration, Gorbachev pledged to remove the whole issue of refuseniks from the agenda by revising the secrecy laws that prevent many Soviet citizens from leaving the U.S.S.R. After a set period of time, he pledged, any person who wants to emigrate or travel will have the legal option to do so. More broadly, he spoke of the futility of maintaining restrictions designed to seal off the Soviet Union from the world. "Today, the preservation of any kind of 'closed' society is hardly possible," he said. Just before his arrival, the jamming of Radio Liberty ended...
Many cyclists insist the decision to wear a helmet is a matter of personal freedom. "A motorcyclist should be able to feel the wind through his hair if that's what he wants," says Wayne Thomas of the California Motorcyclists Association. But the price of such freedom can be high not only for the individual cyclist but for society at large. A study of 105 bike-accident victims hospitalized in Seattle during 1985 found that of the $2.7 million they incurred in medical bills, 63% was paid for out of public funds. Says John Cook of the Insurance Institute...
...situation triggers certain expectations. Surely responsibility -- and the workings of the popular belief that mental illness can be a form of saintliness -- will make Charlie a better, more caring person. And perhaps, freed of institutional constraints, warmed by fraternal bonding, Raymond may get better, since that too is a convention of this kind of drama...
Still, it is far too easy to imagine someone watching the show who doesn't realize that it is all right for men and women to share domestic responsibilities and have equal job status. If that person learns that a huge majority of men think women should be relegated to a lower caste, the result is a subtle, but effective way of reinforcing inequality. But knowledge of how people think is the key to changing their views, even if it is just knowledge we get from game shows...
...first noted in 1951, many people are still not being advised by their doctors to raise their good-cholesterol levels. The reason, says Dr. Robert Levy, president of New Jersey's Sandoz Research Institute, is that there is no absolute proof that raising HDL alone can lower a person's risk of heart disease. No convincing body of evidence from animal studies has yet demonstrated the value of raising HDL, and no clinical trial to date has specifically targeted humans with low HDL. "Much the same question existed for LDL until this decade, when it was unequivocally shown that lowering...