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Focusing on such areas as nutrition and highway safety, Nader urged medical students in the audience to consider careers aimed at investigating the effects of harmful additives in food and at making highway travel safer...
...million in the red, raised the fare from 50? to 60?. Even without a cutback in federal funding, the price of a token could rise to $ 1 by summer. One survey shows that 50% of New York's riders would willingly pay the dollar if it would mean safer, more efficient service. But the higher fare is unlikely to bring any such improvements. Although the massive system would cost $55 billion to replace, only $300 million a year is being spent on rehabilitation and improvement, $700 million short of what experts say is needed. The Reagan focus on capital...
...there were such a thing as being able to choose one's friends and lovers with absolute freedom. The lingering question, however, is: Are these choices actually made freely, or are they so encumbered by past associations and events that separatism is merely expedient? Certainly it is safer and more convenient for black and white to retain their color lines. But if these lines are retained not by choice but rather by fear, then the acts of division are not freely made. Indeed, they are as unnatural and distorted as anything that ever characterized the relationship...
...scene--a comic gesture that only underscores Albee's inability to find how to stage Lolita without either ponderous moralizing or trivializing farce. As long as society remains uncomfortable with this subject while simultaneously exploiting it--and that, no doubt, will be a long time--Lolita will be far safer at home with Nabokov than in some motel room with a leering playwright...
Most creative people are willing to take risks: Mead went to Somoa against the advice of her adviser (he thought it would be safer for a young woman to study the American Indian). They also take advantage of chance. Charles Goodyear discovered the process of vulcanizing rubber after carelessly dropping some raw rubber on a hot stove. Cage makes more intentional use of chance, employing an I Ching--an ancient Chinese book of charts used to determine oracles--to compose some of his music. "Most people who believe that I'm interested in chance don't realize that...