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What the post-modernists don't realize is that they too will suffer if science is ever relegated to a lower place on the rung of priorities. In the long run, due to the economic burden of a scientific-technological decline, there will no longer be adequate funds to support the programs that sustain the post-modernists. This is perhaps the only good thing that may come out of discarding science...
...packs a day for almost four decades; now he has emphysema and needs bottled oxygen to breathe. Medicaid-i.e., taxpayers-foots the bill for his respiratory problems ($400 a month for oxygen, $18,000 for a nine-day hospital stay last year). Despite the tab he's already rung up, Stark still puffs his way through half a pack a day: "I just have this unbelievable craving,'' he says. Stark admits nobody made him start smoking, but since tobacco companies make the product he just can't seem to quit, he figures they're at least partly responsible...
This time the tables are turned. The Crimson (4-1 Ivy, 12-5 overall) is tied for the top rung of the league ladder with Dartmouth, while the Bears (3-2 Ivy, 7-10 overall) are in a three-way pile up for third place with Penn and Princeton...
...groups that have been helped most in recent decades are senior citizens and rich people. At one time, the elderly sat alongside small farmers on the poverty rung of the economic ladder, but they've been pushed up by rising Social Security benefits. President Nixon deserves much of the credit for this. Before he came along, Social Security payments were raised only when Congress decided--usually around election time--to give retired voters a bonus. Since Nixon put in the automatic cost-of-living increase, the surest way to improve your lot in life...
...groups that have been helped most in recent decades are senior citizens and rich people. At one time, the elderly sat alongside small farmers on the poverty rung of the economic ladder, but they've been pushed up by rising Social Security benefits. President Nixon deserves much of the credit for this. Before he came along, Social Security payments were raised only when Congress decided--usually around election time--to give retired voters a bonus. Since Nixon put in the automatic cost-of-living increase, the surest way to improve your lot in life...