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...knows yet why human decline takes such a helter-skelter course, or even what causes aging itself. But it is not for lack of trying. In recent years, the new science of gerontology (the study of aging) has expended prodigious efforts to locate life's master clock and perhaps use that precious knowledge to slow it or even stop it. One locale for the clock (if there is indeed only one) may be within the smallest unit of life, the cell. Growing normal embryonic cells of various species in a test tube, Biologist Leonard Hayflick has made an astonishing...
...certain dream underlies the whole scheme of compensation. Its helter-skelter character, after all, is an expression of one overriding national value: the libertarian ideal. It is the intentional absence of central control that produces the unevenness of the final result. The very elasticity that Americans seem to value most produces the disparities that most annoy them: it is at the root of the social and economic mobility that is the very essence of the American scheme...
...grew up in an America filled with hate and war and drugs and Watergate and CIA-FBI "investigations" and Rich ard Nixon free and James Hoffa free and Helter Skelter and Attica and riots and murder and rape and kidnaping . . . and I asked, "Dear God, what has happened to my country?" Last night I read the article on torture, and I thought, "Thank God I am an American...
...Know. Powell may be a good drinking companion, but he is a helter-skelter administrator. He sometimes neglects to return reporters' phone calls, and, despite the support of 22 paid staffers in Atlanta, he is distressingly disorganized. "I get heartburn over the way he operates," complains one campaign plane regular. Powell was also criticized for being so involved in important Carter decisions during the convention that he was not available to reporters. "The person who handles the press ought to be someone who knows what is going on," he explains. "That means he cannot always be with the press...
...Murphy family members work for him. The Afro serves up rich portions of information on education, careers, consumerism and fashion, is keenly aware of black heritage subjects, carries a great deal of Third World news and has its own photographic morgue. Its generally gentlemanly tone contrasts with a helter-skelter makeup that suggests all the news that fits, it prints. Says Murphy: "An editorial on unjust hiring policies doesn't create the same excitement as marches and barking dogs in Birmingham, but we will continue to focus on important problems-housing, education, jobs, voting." The Afro...