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Obesity, the direct result of overeating, has been definitely proved to shorten life, Dr. Frederick J. Stare, chairman of the department of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, said in the current issue of the U.S. News and World Report...
...plan, as presented to the Army, would expand summer camp training to 12 weeks, and would shorten ROTC class work to three years. In addition, civilian instruction in ROTC classes would be greatly extended. At present, all ROTC students spend six weeks in summer camp, and four years in classes...
...many businesses, such an arrangement will shorten the risk on and therefore encourage investments in new plant and equipment. The Administration regards faster write-offs as one of the "cornerstone" law's two great contributions to the nation's long-range economic growth, the other being the tax break for stockholders...
...only way left to shorten the inquiry, then, is to stop irrelevant oratory and stay within the scope originally planned. Senator Mundt, as Committee chairman, is the only man who can keep the hearings in line. But to cut down digressions, he will have to discard his smiling manner for the less popular role of bulldog...
Such a mirror, said Oberth. would have many useful properties. Floating most of the time outside the earth's shadow, it would shorten the earth's night by lighting its dark side. It would bathe cold countries in reflected sunlight, making them productive and habitable. If war should start on the earth below, the "aggressor" (the party not in control of space) could be handily incinerated by making the mirror concave to concentrate its beam...