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This past summer she received the American Sociological Association Award for distinguished contributions to sociology--the highest award in the field--and the C. Wright Mills Award from the U.S. Association of Sociology for her book, States and Social Revolution, published last year. Colleagues and students consider her one of the best teachers in the department, and four universities have offered her tenure...
...reminds voters that he, too, is a fervent backer of farm price supports, that he is the No. 2 Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, and that he supports increased benefits for the elderly (more than 17% of South Dakota's population is over 60, one of the highest percentages in the nation). He makes no apologies for being a liberal, which he defines as "one who believes the power of the U.S. Government ought to be thrown on the side of ordinary people...
...younger man all along to attract newer talent and give the 123-year-old monthly more "energy," which, he says, had been lacking. Manning, a former Under Secretary of State and TIME senior editor, leaves the Atlantic with four National Magazine Awards (1971-73 and 1979) and its highest circulation ever (351,000). Whitworth will not assume full control of the Atlantic until next spring. But Zuckerman already plans to add popular Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman and British Journalist William Shawcross as contributors. Science Essayist Lewis Thomas and London Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans have been signed as senior...
...prices could raise the projected U.S. inflation rate in 1981 from 9.8% to 13%, according to Data Resources. That is a discouraging prospect for American consumers, who last week were told by the Bureau of Labor statistics that food prices in the U.S. rose 1.7% in August, the highest increase in 2½ years. Although fuel costs did not increase at all in August, the Consumer Price Index jumped 0.7%. The Federal Reserve moved late in the week to attack inflation by raising the discount rate, the fee it charges on loans to member banks, from...
...This substance helps remove other, more harmful types of cholesterol from the body and presumably reduces the chances of such materials building up in the arteries. Studying 218 marathoners, joggers and nonrunners, G. Harley Hartung of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston found that the marathoners had the highest level of HDL. Other factors may be at work; marathoners tend to be relaxed, eat healthful foods, not smoke and stay thin...