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...success stories of the Green Revolution, is now seeking commodity aid from the U.S. because inadequate rains coupled with fertilizer shortages reduced recent harvests. With perhaps half of its 600 million people living at or below the subsistence level -eating no more than one meager meal daily-even a slight drop in food production can have an enormous impact. If drought returns to India this year, tens of millions of lives will be threatened...
...presented by Dr. Samuel Rosen, a New York City otologist who learned acupuncture three years ago as one of the first American physicians to visit Communist China. Rosen studied 40 children who received acupuncture therapy for their hearing disorders and found that only two showed improvement, and that was slight...
Harvard refused to grow shaky and blow the race, however, rowing steadily through the third 500 meters and pulling even farther ahead. Wisconsin pulled up ever so slightly at the 1600-meter mark and then the Crimson went into its sprint, rowing easily and beautifully into the slight headwind to finish the course in 6:02.8, five seconds ahead of Wisconsin and eight in front of Northeastern...
Rowing against a slight headwind the Harvard lightweight JV's with coxswain Burt Levitch, stroke Jerry Boak, Dave Porter (7), Rich Harper (6), Tim Hackert (5), Mark Sieber (4), Jack Foley (3), Greg Miller (2) and Woody Harlan at the bow slot, took off against their arch rival Princeton, and never looked back. Rowing at a 36 for most of the race, Harvard crossed the finish line at 6:30.8, with Princeton more than a length behind coming in at 6:36.2. Navy was third...
...freshmen lightweights also went out in style. When they move up to new divisions next year, they can look back to a great finish of their freshman season. Rowing in near-perfect conditions, helped by a slight tail wind, the freshmen barreled through the competition, beating Rutgers by open water...