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...shortage of natural gas that has closed factories and schools throughout the Northeast and Midwest is only the most visible and urgent symptom of the nation's energy crisis. Oil imports continue to hover at a record 44% of the nation's supply-a dangerous dependence on foreign producers that "has got to stop," as President Carter put it at his news conference last week. But domestic oil production is still declining; gasoline may run short during this summer's driving season because refineries will switch from making heating oil to gasoline much later than usual. Construction...
...first symptom of frostbite is a tingling sensation in the extremities. The skin turns slightly red at first and then becomes pale grayish-yellow and numb. Pain subsides and sometimes blisters begin to appear. At the first signs, the victim should be brought inside and the affected parts warmed with tepid, not hot water. Snow should never be massaged on a frostbitten area. Second-and third-degree frostbites are treated like burns; sometimes victims are hospitalized. Thus it is only commonsensical to suit up for winter as if it were a mortal foe-which it can be (see box following...
...uproar provoked by the attempted elimination of 4-year housing is completely justified and must command the support of all progressive forces within the University. Fox's hallucination however, is merely a symptom of the cancer that is hounding and crippling this community. The real issue is the reckless manner in which the University has been able to run the lives of the very individuals it is supposed to serve as a source of inspiration and livelihood: its students and workers. Put as succinctly as possible: democracy has become little more than a provocative abstraction, or an esoteric topic...
...shiver with anticipation But maybe the rain is really to blame So I'll remove the cause but not the symptom...
...minister, will need all his preaching abilities in his new job. The N.A.A.C.P. is in grave danger of becoming nothing more than an honored anachronism. The very fact that for the first six months of 1977 it will have not one but two heads-Hooks and Wilkins-is a symptom of its deep malaise. Wilkins, 75, has even accused some members of the N.A.A.C.P.'s governing board of conducting a "campaign of vilification" to get rid of him. For the sake of appearances, the board allowed him to stay-along with Hooks as director-designate-until after the national...