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...turned Mexico from an oil importer to an exporter of 60,000 bbl. a day. The impact, reports TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, has already been felt in the Tabascan capital of Villahermosa, where land prices have soared as much as 2,000% and hotel space is at a premium. Tabascan Governor Mario Trujillo Garcia predicts that Villahermosa's population, now 150,000, will double in eight years. Out in the countryside, where rainfall of up to 400 inches a year keeps 40% of the land under water, the rapid change is not appreciated. The oil belongs to Pemex...
...form, just as throughout this compendium of essays Lamont attacks determinism in any name, shape and form (Christian theistic, Marxist economic, Skinnerian behaviorist, even shades he sights in Dewey's naturalistic), he dismisses Freudian psychology as the explanation for his very un-patrician life choices. Rather, Lamont places a premium on just such choices--life choice, free will, individual accountability. From there, he spins a personal philosophy of "naturalistic humanism," scientific, rational, ethical, democratic, and internationalist, in order of presentation...
...Columbus, Ohio, members of Local 423 of the Laborers' International Union can get everything from divorces and wills to real estate closings paid for by union legal insurance. Shoppers at a large food cooperative in Berkeley, Calif., can climb to the second floor, put down a $25 annual premium and receive a limited number of cut-rate consultations with lawyers at the co-op's affiliate, Consumers' Group Legal Services...
Though they vary widely, most plans fall into one of two categories. So-called "open" plans permit a member to choose any lawyer and be reimbursed up to set limits. Members of the Laborers' International local in Shreveport, La., for example, pay a family premium of $40 annually and are entitled each year to $100 worth of legal consultation, $250 for office work and research and up to $325 for court cases. Policyholders use the plan most often for auto claims and for domestic problems such as divorce and child-custody contests. Under the second or "closed" type...
...exams, an emphasis that pre-med courses at Harvard badly need. Although Bamberg may not have been sufficiently wary of the possibility of cheating in the course, his sentiments in structuring it the way he did were unerringly correct. The way to prevent future cheating is to place a premium on learning, as Bamberg did, rather than on rigidly proscribed examination procedures that inevitably lead to intense competition for grades...