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...million a year. But, unlike the other natural products of the valley, it is illegal. The plant is sinsemillas (Spanish for seedless), a highly cultivated strain of marijuana that has recently found favor with U.S. pot smokers. It thrives in the fertile soil and relaxed legal atmosphere of southern Oregon...
...private insurers picking up the check, hospitals have speedily expanded, adding beds that are not needed and competing vigorously for patients by buying such expensive equipment as CAT scanners, sophisticated diagnostic computer devices that cost as much as $700,000. Califano estimates that there are enough CATS in Southern California to serve the entire western U.S. Having made such heavy investments, hospitals feel compelled to use the equipment even though it may not be necessary, thus driving medical costs up further. The doctor too is encouraged to provide services that are not strictly needed. Faced with the question of whether...
Hillsdale College in southern Michigan started admitting blacks and women before the Civil War and has no record of discrimination. It accepts no direct federal aid. Nevertheless, HEW is threatening to cut off federal loans and other assistance to some of the school's students because it will not fill out forms on the status of women at the college. HEW claims to be basing its action on a Justice Department ruling, and the case is now being heard by an administrative judge in Washington. For Hillsdale, resistance is a matter of principle. It has embarked on a fund-raising...
...past other conservative Alabama Democrats to win a Senate seat in 1968. Proving himself a wizard of the Senate rule book, he proceeded to confound his Northern colleagues by calling for a jumble of motions, resolutions and postponements on key issues that usually wrung concessions for his vocal Southern bloc. The filibuster was his most powerful tool until 1975, when, over his elaborate objections, the Senate modified Rule 22 to allow the votes of only three-fifths of the fall Senate to limit debate on most matters. In the canal fight, Allen urged and won an amendment permitting the maintenance...
Many of the graduating seniors will be wearing black armbands to protest Harvard's investments in South Africa, and the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) plans a "nondisruptive" protest...