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...pale and gaunt Mickey Mantle made his first public appearance today since a liver transplant a month ago, with this warning for kids: "You talk about a role model, this is a role model: Don't be like me." The Yankee great, whose 40 years of hard drinking helped destroy his health, has dropped 40 pounds, and has a 60 percent chance of living five more years. "God gave me the ability to play baseball and I wasted it," he said. "I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to make up. I want to start giving...
...writer says. But months passed at Paula's bedside before Allende learned that a hospital mishap had caused irreversible brain damage. "It was destiny--and it was bad luck. After they told me, I went on writing because I could not stop. I could not let anger destroy...
...other words: the Euro-American world hasequipped other parts of the globe with instrumentsthat not only could effectively destroy theenlightened values which, among other things, madepossible the invention of precisely theseinstruments, but which could well cripple thecapacity of people to live together on this earth...
...consciousnessof humanity, as we all know, has a dual nature,bringing into question at every step of the waythe very values it is based upon or which itpropagates. The thousands of marvelousachievements of this civilization that work for usso well and enrich us can equally impoverish,diminish and destroy our lives, and frequently do.Instead of serving people, many of these creationsenslave them. Instead of helping people to developtheir identities, they take them away. Almostevery invention or discovery--from the splittingof the atom and the discovery of DNA to televisionand the computer--can be turned against us andused to our detriment...
...only plea here is to make [the cuts] thoughtfully and not damage or destroy what we've built up," Rudenstine said. "At this moment, let's not turn our backs on this pledge...