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Despite the aid, refugees are discovering that assimilation is far from automatic. There are the usual problems of language and loneliness. The months and often years spent in the crowded squalor of the resettlement camps have taken their toll: malnutrition is widespread, and cases of tuberculosis are found...
...everything else was buried under a layer of ooze almost 4 ft. thick. Rescue workers found bloated bodies half buried in the sediment and hanging from fences and tree branches. By week's end, some 1,100 corpses had been counted, and it seemed probable that the final toll would go even higher, not counting those killed in the 30-odd small villages between Morvi...
...Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, massing their biggest rescue operation since World War II, prevented the death toll from being even worse. For 84 straight hours, eight helicopters, six naval vessels, and volunteer commercial ships ranged over 10,000 sq. mi., rescuing 136 sailors. When helicopters spotted survivors in the water, the choppers had to drop and rise like yo-yos, trying to get in synchronization with the giant waves. The boats' tall masts made it impossible to pluck yachtsmen from the decks. "The idea of jumping into those huge seas was appalling," said Frank Worley, a crewman...
...they may be willing to sacrifice so much more of it that the Republic could become a totally different kind of society. For Wriston is quite right when he argues that economic freedom is essential to all freedom. As he puts it, "To think that the bell does not toll for academic freedom or freedom of the press if economic freedom is shackled is a dangerous illusion...
Though science has little studied how habitual air conditioning affects mind or body, some medical experts suggest that, like other technical avoidance of natural swings in climate, air conditioning may take a toll on the human capacity to adapt to stress. If so, air conditioning is only like many other greatly useful technical developments that liberate man from nature by increasing his productivity and power in some ways-while subtly weakening him in others...