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...children are more likely to be born prematurely, to contract serious diseases during infancy and to suffer from malnutrition during the first three years of life, when 80% of all brain growth takes place. Doctors and educators agree that language, words as a key to handling ideas, is the sine qua non of intelligence. Yet the children of the poor, white or black, are less likely than middle-class youngsters to get the intellectual stimulation essential to their mental development. Some parents in urban and rural ghettos still follow what Mrs. Mary Robinson, director of Baltimore's Martin Luther...
...negotiable asset of Nixon's, but the man who brought us the forgettable public tragedies of Checkers and Cambodia and the toothless tiger of Phase II has proven that we do not value charisma as much as we think we do. Or that, more precisely, charisma is not the sine qua non that it is cracked up to be. His career testifies that a patient, practised and lucky player can finesse a winner from a political hand as apparently irreparably weak as Nixon's was after his defeat in California...
...effort to reconstruct the total black experience. Now, more than ever, it is, in the words of the introduction to the current issue of the Harvard Journal of Afro-American Affairs "a psychological revolution which demands the redefinition and restructuralization of fundamental premises governing our existence." As such, its sine qua non is the formation of mechanisms of communication which will "aid in formulating, articulating and implementing new concepts and programs for the liberation of our people...
...Sine Qua Non. One reason for the confusion in policy is that Americans have been accustomed to act as if cheap and abundant energy were assured through eternity. Power-to heat and light buildings, propel cars and planes, keep computers and other machines purring-is the sine qua non of an industrial society. The U.S. has been consuming it far more greedily than any other nation. Americans make up 6% of the earth's population but use approximately 40% of its energy-producing fuels. According to a study by the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, the nation's energy...
...appeal argued that he had been denied a "full and fair" hearing before the CRR both times it punished him (in May 1970 and the year before). Sine Cox could not bring before the CRR charges against the Corporation for its intransigence inregard to student and faculty resolutions on ROTC, and since he could not bring charges against, or even force to testify at his hearing, any of the men who were denying Harvard workers the right to strike, he argued that he was getting less than a full and fair hearing. Evidence which might have demonstrated extenuating circumstances...