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Jimmy Carter's leadership is in trouble, and the Bert Lance affair is only one symptom...
There are scattered efforts to crack down on speculators, though speculation is a symptom rather than a cause of high demand. Some California savings and loans are either refusing to lend mortgage money to would-be buyers who do not intend to live in the houses, or charging them higher interest. A few builders, too, are declining to sell to the buyer who, say, tries to purchase five houses at once...
...fact, the author calls for a "medicine beyond science" and asks the question, "What can be done to help alleviate the spread of loneliness-induced disease in our society?" To Lynch, the search for short-order intimacy in group therapies and encounter and sensitivity training is a symptom of the problem, not the solution. The answer, he believes, lies in reaffirming the importance of the family and in caring for friends and neighbors. Says he: "Simply put, there is a biological basis for our need to form human relationships. If we fail to fulfill that need, our health...
...looting is undoubtedly a symptom of some serious problems in our society. First, this kind of behavior reveals a failure of the family, the church and the schools to instill basic moral standards among a sizable part of the population. I feel that the schools bear a special responsibility in the inner city...
...only drug advised by doctors, but warned that many people are courting disaster by using it without first seeking medical attention. In some cases, self-medication with aspirin may be inadequate and in others totally wrong. In gonorrhea, for example, arthritis-like pains are sometimes the only obvious symptom. Anyone relying on aspirin who has this disease is thus doing nothing to control the dangerous underlying bacterial infection...