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Sergeant Jones' arrival on Ward X leads to chaos--the reaction of "abnormals" to the presence of the "normal." Langtry, whom her patients regard as their property, falls in love with Jones. Jones, however, is "normal" and therefore a completely foreign element among the "troppos." Nurse Langtry's obvious attachment to him enrages the other patients, and secret plots and jealous machinations, leading to the murder of a patient, result...
Those questions are raised by the phenomenal growth of "entitlement" programs, including welfare, food stamps, school lunches, unemployment compensation and a congeries of others, the biggest by far being Social Security. Their common element is that they provide eligible recipients with guaranteed benefits. Once a citizen meets certain standards-falling below a specified income level, losing a job, simply turning 65 in th case of Social Security-he or she qualifies for a pension, a fre meal, a low-interest college loan or whatever it is that by law must be granted, regardless of the cost to the society...
...board-certified internist with an M.D. from Western Reserve and a Harvard Masters in public health, and a researcher in epidemiology (the study of risk factors contributing to the outbreak of epidemics)--spend many of his evenings singing with undergraduate men and women half his age? Is there an element of the Peter Pan syndrome at work here, an attempt to retain youth through proximity...
Labor unions receive sympathetic treatment in the encyclical. John Paul believes unions are an "indispensable element" for defending the rights of working people. He endorses strikes but does warn that they are an extreme means and "must not be abused, especially for political purposes." Indeed, unions should not "play politics." This is a message that may fall on deaf ears in many Western European and Third World nations, where unions have long been politicized...
...them. While many technological breakthroughs have resulted from purely theoretical research, corporations tend to be more interested in encouraging short-term solutions to specific problems or in developing products. Concedes Wilbert Ferguson, a Westinghouse engineering director, discussing his firm's arrangement with Carnegie-Mellon: "There may be an element of support for academic research, but we really are trying to get as much...