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...heat's chief victims were the poor and the old. The median age of those who died in Kansas City was 73 (72% were 65 or over). The death rate in low-income areas was 9.6 per 10,000, vs. .09 in wealthy districts. Apparent reason: the well-off elderly were not only healthier to begin with, but better supplied with fans, air conditioners and other aids to keep body temperatures below the 105° F (40.6° C) or so that helps trigger heat stroke...
...gags have the sting of truth. How accurate they may be about his own life is another matter. He talks about "comedic license," but whether he is doing a shotgun discourse on marriage or about growing up Jewish and poor in a section of New York City that is well-off and Waspy, he seems to be drawing from deep roots. Rodney was Jacob Cohen when the neighborhood kids had names "like Marianne and Biff." When they were on the tennis courts, he was delivering groceries. He started writing gags when he was 15. At 19 he was playing...
This spring the first national conference on teacher burnout was held in New York City. Surprisingly, the syndrome seems nearly as common in small towns and well-off suburbs as in big cities. The National Education Association has already held more than 100 local workshops round the country to help teachers cope with the problem, which University of California Social Psychologist Ayala Pines defines as "physical, emotional and attitudinal exhaustion." Last March, Stress Consultant Marian Leibowitz held a burnout seminar in Edwardsville, Ill. (pop. 11,982). It drew a paying audience of 250 to a hall big enough for only...
...well-born and well-off, Cambridge University was an oasis in the wasteland of prewar Europe. Yet, for a few, the green fields were mined with sexual intrigue and high treason. For Cambridge was also a school for scandal. The most notorious Soviet spies were recruited there: Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and, it turned out late last year, Sir Anthony Blunt, now deknighted and deposed as art adviser to the Queen. How, from this world of privilege, philosophy and vintage port, could the Soviets have enlisted such consummate traitors...
...suspense for its sustained pace - and that is all to the good. The sad news is that the author has emphasized her real but riskier talent: writing about a collection of people who are emotional misers, helpless prisoners of their warped, florid but powerful brains. Also, because they are well-off Londoners or criminals, they do not bother much about work...