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Pinney believes that the "indescribeably hideous regime of Saddam Hussein" is justification for Operation Desert Storm. He says he protested the Vietnam War because "the means--napalm, carpet bombing, mass murder--became so out of proportion to the ends."
Not everyone, however, has such a bleakprognosis for this year's job market. VictorLindquist, director of placement at NorthwesternUniversity who conducted a study whose findingsmirrored those of the Michigan State survey, saidthat the media has blown out of proportion theseverity of the job shortage.
With each new dietary study, eating seems to become less of a joyful experience and more of a risky business. The latest word follows that depressing pattern: researchers announced that the chances of developing colon cancer appear to rise almost in direct proportion to the amount of red meat and...
The trickle has not escaped the Census Bureau. Last January it reported that for the first time in more than a century the proportion of black Americans living in the South had taken an upward climb: 56% lived in the region in 1988, up from 52% in 1980. More important...
Psychologists maintain that they are eager to prescribe because medication is an increasingly powerful tool for relieving mental illness. But some critics see an ulterior motive. They contend that what the two professions are really concerned about is profits. In fact, psychiatrists have reason to worry. From 1982 to 1987...