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...look at any economic textbook, you'll see that this is a very destructive practice," Maddox says. "If you have rent control, there is not enough money going back into the building...
...PARTICULARLY DIABOLICAL textbook problem for budding ethicists has been transposed to grim reality in upstate New York. In 1985 a highway accident smashed the promise of a 19-year-old Cornell University freshman, putting her into a coma-like state. Then in August someone at the Westfall Health Care Center in Brighton, N.Y., raped the helpless woman, a fact deduced last month when the woman, now 29, was found to be five months pregnant...
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA: Moments after the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on January 28, 1986, millions of people watching a textbook launch around the world saw it explode in a horrific fireball, killing seven astronauts, including school teacher Christa McAullife. TIME's Jerry Hannifin reports: "NASA learned a hard lesson with this tragedy. It learned not to be so damn complacent about machinery and the people who monitor that machinery. It changed the mindset of NASA, which up to that time had a sense of overweening self-confidence. That arrogance contributed to the explosion. NASA...
Other people procrastinate by playing computer games or doing lots and lots of pleasure reading. Compared to textbook discussions on "the mechanisms of cell death," even the phone book constitutes pleasure reading (and I'm talking White Pages here). The problem with these methods of procrastination is that they quickly generate large amounts of guilt...
Areeda was also the author of what remains the field's leading textbook, Antitrust Analysis...