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...maiming and bloodletting on the current political scene [NATION, Sept. 17] can only weaken the vital processes by which we govern ourselves. How can the candidates ever recover from the personal and public injury they heap upon each other? If we are to survive as a great republic, we must have the best, not the beastliest, from everyone...
...insect that carries it, the female Anopheles mosquito. Peruvian Indians discovered the first important weapon: the bark of the Cinchona tree. For centuries the bark and its derivative, quinine, were the only means of preventing and treating malaria's waves of fever, which can recur erratically and weaken victims for years. Gin and tonic, originally made with quinine, is said to have been developed by British colonialists as a way of making their daily doses more palatable...
...disagree. In a poll published last month in the Tel Aviv daily Ha 'aretz, 60% said that the anti-Arab violence was unjustified, though 32% felt it was "totally justified" or had "a certain justification." Says Gerald M. Steinberg, a professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University: "Self-appointed avengers weaken the state and reduce us to the level of other perpetrators of terror...
Many economists fear that counter trade could severely weaken, rather than bolster, international commerce. It fosters bilateral agreements at the expense of multilateral trade and can reduce over all world commerce. Says Franklin Root, head of the Wharton School's international business program: "Such arrangements are anathema to the free market." Others disagree. Zenon Carnapas, head of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, says that countertrade deals are "a solution of last resort" for struggling LDCS. Still, no one disputes that postwar prosperity was built on the foundation of free and growing trade among nations...
Maass says he now wants to move his research into a different area--the danger that U.S. attorneys, while fighting corruption nationwide, might ironically weaken state and local government...