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Asian Acceptance. Realizing that European migration alone can never adequately populate the land, many leading Australians now advocate selective Asian immigration. A Gallup poll reported recently that 73% of the population (v. 44% in 1958) would approve at least a small annual quota of skilled Asians. Apart from the economic strain, the government is all too aware of the strategic perils of underpopulation. With 3,000 fighting men in Malaysia (see story above) and a battalion in Viet Nam, half of Australia's combat-ready forces are already tied down in the widening struggle for Southeast Asia...
Sharpening Competition. While Britain handicaps its steel industry by excluding U.S. coal and Germany admits only a small quota, Italy has become one of Europe's lowest-price steelmakers (despite its lack of native iron or coal) by relying on coastal plants, American coal and ore from India, Liberia, Canada, Venezuela and Brazil. Aided by this reliance, Italian steel output has shot up 41% in seven years. A similar formula (Australian ore, coal from the U.S.) has made Japan's wholly seaside steel industry the world's No. 3 producer and a formidably competitive exporter from Detroit...
...called themselves revolutionaries, he (and his wife) had alone experienced revolution. Yet he found himself in the extraordinary position of defending the United States, insisting on the complexities of Vietnam, and praising the American right of free speech. In another context he might have spoken differently, but the quota of radicalism was well filled that night. Dedijer as an intellectual humanist, and even more, as a European, tried to redress the balance...
...first place applications to the newly-built Houses, agreed to allow under-subscribed House "raid" their over-popular brothers. Masters with a surfeit of aplications must now open their files to a limited number of raids after they have filled only 30 per cent of their House's quota. Then they resume filling up their own Houses. The process goes on to the stages of the second and third choice until the Houses reach 70 per cent capacity...
...somehow account for the varying reactions to hormone therapy? First they had to find out whether there was any difference in the Barr bodies of different cancer patients. Dr. Hienz discovered that cancer cells from about two-thirds of the breast-cancer cases he was studying contained a normal quota of Barr bodies. But in cells from the remaining third of the patients he could find few or no dark spots. The absence of Barr bodies in some of the cancer cells suggested that those cells had been, in effect, partly defeminized. The change, the doctors thought, might indeed explain...