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Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, on the other hand, brought rigorous scientific standards to his judgments on the story, and an admitted predisposition to skepticism. "Belief in these matters," he feels, "is less a function of intelligence than of psychological need." Although he firmly believes that even such widespread phenomena as...
We have developed a rational alternative. We fed some coyotes a lamb pattie treated with a toxic salt. This made them sick, but they soon recovered. After one or at most two treatments, these sheep killers refused to attack lambs.
What really is at issue is the form organized crime takes in American society. None of the protesters would seriously try to deny the existence of organized crime. What they object to is its characterization. The federal government, newspapers, and most organized crime watchers have viewed "the Mafia" as a...
toward rational legalization of marijuana."
Predictably, there are widespread objections to the film's R rating, which permits youths under 17 to see it if accompanied by a parent. Manhattan Child Psychiatrist Hilde Mosse warns that the film provides a "deadly mixture of sex, violence and evil. The idea that we can solve our...