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...those adults who seek it out. In particular, if it can be kept out of the reach of children, much of the public will be relieved. A more desirable, if far more difficult, way would be for the Supreme Court to find a new definition of obscenity that would strengthen the laws-not enough to satisfy the most outraged citizen and infringe free speech, but enough to satisfy the widespread feeling that something must be done about pornography's pandemic spread...
...greeted with exultation bordering on madness in the financial community. The shares would be bought and Fixyou, Inc, would be unharmed." As a result, Barber, explains, "Harvard would loss all its influence over the company. So the only result of this well-intentioned act would be, in fact, to strengthen the traffic in hard drugs. And this is something no Harvard man or Radcliffe mother wants." Richard Goodwin
...controversy and confusion. On one side have been those-in control until now -who have wanted something like the BBC, a vigorous national alternative to the commercial networks. On the other have been those-mostly in the Nixon Administration-who have wanted to spread federal money to strengthen local public stations as a "complement" rather than an alternative to commercial TV. With last week's installation of Nixon stalwart Henry Loomis as president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the localists appear to have won the battle-at least for the moment...
...feel no sense of loss upon becoming sterile and generally find their sex lives unimpaired and occasionally improved by the procedure. But impotence has occurred in those who were, knowingly or not, uncertain of their masculinity before vasectomy, while patients who submit to the surgery believing that it will strengthen a shaky marriage are invariably disappointed. Helen Wolfers, a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, studied 95 men who had undergone vasectomies and found that ten had sexual problems following the operation. Interviews revealed that most had reluctantly agreed to vasectomy in an attempt to solve...
...freshman. If you fear a rough time with chemistry or biology as a freshman, take only Math Ar and Math la or Math 1a and lb and plan to take Nat Sci 3 as a sophomore. And if you find chemistry hard you may well need to strengthen your math background and should consider Math Ar. The worst of all possible worlds is when a freshman loses all his self-confidence. Freshman year is a rough time of adjustment, self-doubt, etc.; and work in the sciences is best deferred until a rough period of adjustment has passed...