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Outside the dorms, the word "ghetto" is not uncommon among the foreign students. With apartment rentals as expensive as they are, five or six graduate students often crowd into one apartment, dividing the costs. Us-usually they stay with their own nationality...
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What to do? The first thing is to learn more about retardation's causes, said the President. So far, only about 25% of cases can be medically explained by mongolism, birth injury, infection in infancy, German measles early in gestation, the Rh factor, lead poisoning, or uncommon defects in the body's enzyme chemistry. Where no such factors can be detected, retardation is commonest, said Kennedy, in urban and rural slums, in places where women get little or no doctoring during pregnancy. And there is much retardation among these mothers' abnormally high proportion of premature babies. Children...
...Tokyo alone. At rush hours, 350 commuters jam into cars designed for 100, helped by brawny students who are paid 150 yen (42?) an hour to stand on the platform and shoehorn people inside. When the doors open, the scrimmage begins; cracked ribs are not uncommon. In such circumstances, the passenger's first concern is for his safety, not for his packages-or even his clothes. In fact, so many commuters lose their shoes fighting their way off the trains that the bigger stations now keep a supply of assorted shoes on hand...
...Oslo government has been keeping a register of mental illness cases since 1916, and its records are the world's best for a homogeneous, stable population. Among U.S. immigrants, and their descendants, from Mediterranean countries, a mysterious, periodic fever, easily mistaken for hepatitis or mononucleosis. is not uncommon. PHS has allotted $107,000 to researchers headed by Dr. Harry Heller in Tel Aviv, where familial Mediterranean fever is rife. In the U.S.. where there is no comparable concentration of patients, such research would cost at least three or four times as much. Half a world away, Peruvian Indians...