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...evidence of his theory, McCracken points to such herding cultures as the Bahima of Uganda, among whom lactase levels remain high throughout life, as they do in most civilized countries today where dairying is practiced and milk intolerance uncommon. Other herders (such as the neighboring Baganda and most of the Bantu in Africa), who keep cattle but do not drink the milk, have low lactase levels after childhood and a high incidence of intolerance to milk. In other parts of the world, the same pattern exists. More than 85% of Thai children over the age of five, for example, cannot...
...then presiding judge of the New York archdiocesan marriage court, caused an ecclesiastical stir when he suggested that an individual should have the right in conscience to decide whether he might civilly divorce, remarry and responsibly remain a participating communicant in the Catholic Church. Now, such suggestions are not uncommon. A group of Catholic churchmen meeting in Germany last summer acknowledged that the ideal of permanent marriage is not easily achieved in practice and that Catholics involved in successful second marriages should not be denied the sacraments of the church, as canon law now requires. One American canonist in Rome...
...plump target like Bobby Baker, Senator Thomas Dodd or Representative Adam Clayton Powell pops up. The sport is perfectly legitimate, especially because Congressmen are often hasty to impose tougher conflict-of-interest standards on others than on their own erring colleagues. But serious, searching analysis of the subject is uncommon. Last week the Association of the Bar of the City of New York produced exactly that-a study at once revealing of abuses and constructive in its proposals for remedy...
Economy and Tact. As case history, Ariana's problem is not uncommon. She is unable to choose happiness over despair because her will has been paralyzed. In Wheelis' view, the cause is not only Craig's outrages but the subtly pervasive spirit of the age. Behaviorists, technophiles and their parrots in the social sciences have overemphasized the lock step of instinct at the expense of free will. For many people, the result is a form of fatalism that destroys belief in the possibility of change...
After a quarter of an hour, the comrade director relinquished the controls and the aircraft resumed its straight and level-more or less-course. Such incidents are not uncommon in Eastern Europe, where flying aboard the national airlines-known to veteran travelers as "the salami lines"-is often a surrealistic experience. TIME'S Eastern European Correspondent William Mader has been a frequent passenger over the past two years. His appraisal: "Flight with the Eastern Europeans is often hectic, uncomfortable and even, too frequently, hair-raising. The reasons are Communist inefficiency and relative backwardness, lassitude and native temperament. Even though...