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...Langdell Library in the Law School, more than a half-million volumes are crumbling. At Countway Library in the Medical School, more than 150,000 books are falling to pieces. At Gutman Library in the Graduate School of Education, 50,000 books are turning to dust on the shelves. And at Widener Library, the flagship of the Harvard University Library system, more than 1 million books are crumbling...
Tomorrow: What Harvard is doing to save its decaying books.At the Law School's Langdell Library, a half-million volumes are crumbling...
...time to get the liberals to start thinking about their fannies and stop thinking about civil rights," he said. "I'm talking about quarantining a half-million, a million, even a million and a half people. At some point a quarantine will no longer appear possible. Then China's solution will enter the public's consideration...
...talking about quarantining a half-million, a million, even a million and a half people," he said. "At some point a quarantine will no longer appear possible. Then China's solution will enter the public's consideration...
...addition to the half-million immigrants who are allowed to come to the U.S. each year, a substantial number arrive illegally. Estimates of the total vary widely. The Immigration and Naturalization Service apprehended 1.3 million illegal immigrants last year (many of them more than once) and guessed that several times that many had slipped through its net. The Census Bureau, however, estimated the total of illegal immigrants in the U.S. at between 3.5 million and 6 million in 1978. A National Academy of Sciences study issued last week denounced the INS statistics as "woefully inadequate" and put the total...