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...Confederacy still lives. I do not advocate Civil War but legal separatism so the South can survive the International Rot that corrupts the world and especially the Northern states...
...cost of bringing new lands under the plow. Huge areas of Africa are suitable for livestock ranching but cannot be developed until money is available to eliminate diseases that attack both cattle and herders. Also badly needed: improved food-storage systems to prevent the massive destruction of grains by rot, insects, rodents and monkeys. In Calcutta, in fact, up to 30% of the stored grain is devoured by mice and other pests...
...correspondents reported on the shivers that New York's threatened bankruptcy is sending through national financial markets. Says Associate Editor Frank Merrick, who catalogued the effects on other cities trying to borrow in order to meet expenses: "There's a virtual fruit basket of problems. The rot of the Big Apple could spoil a whole bunch of cities." From Washington, Correspondents David Beckwith and John Stacks cabled reports on the debate over extending federal aid, while Reporter-Researchers Allan Hill and Marta Dorion combed the dense and often deceptive budgetary studies that measure the city's economic...
...still the nation's center of banking, the stock market, broadcasting, publishing, advertising and the arts. Its cultural, medical and scientific facilities are unrivaled. The number of tourists in creases each year. But without proper support from the rest of the city, the healthy core will also begin to rot...
...become largely drama schools which force people to act as if they were rehabilitated along stereotyped conventions." Concludes Columbia Sociologist Robert Martinson after studying hundreds of programs for 20 years: "The prison which makes every effort at rehabilitation succeeds no better than the prison which leaves its inmates to rot." Succeeds, that is, in reducing the huge number of repeat offenders (70% of inmates). Improved behavior inside the walls turns out to be no indication of behavior after prison. As Mattick says, "It is hard to train an aviator in a submarine...