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...passe, and some people look for new thrills. For another, coke is a powerful stimulant that helps the jaded to forget their ennui. The stimulating effects were discovered by Andean Indians, who for centuries have been chewing coca leaves, the source of cocaine, to help them endure cold and hunger. South America is still the source of most cocaine...
...victim of cancer. You have done a great service to me, and so many like myself, who hunger for information upon which we might pin our hopes. Your cover story on Dr. Good [March 19] has provided such hope, and I thank you for it. But most of all, I thank Dr. Good for his dedication, as well as all the other unsung heroes who are, at this moment, in their laboratories searching for a way to keep us alive...
...Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, Christianity may be losing its power to grip the imagination. "We have become imageless," he says. "We have no symbols like Moses' passage through the Red Sea. We are empty people. The elements of mystery in the church have been almost systematically removed. But hunger for the mysterious is widespread in all people. We cannot be human unless we have the experience of transcendence...
...Investigators believe that human beings can learn to produce these waves at will if they are guided by "biofeedback training," a system of recording brain waves and letting a subject know (by means of a light or other signal) whenever he succeeds in emitting alpha. Capitalizing on the widespread hunger for instant nirvana, commercial promoters are selling "alpha machines" for home use and opening "alpha training institutes." According to Psychologist Thomas Mulholland, chairman of the Bio-Feedback Research Society, these attract chiefly "the naive, the desperate and the superstitious...
Thanks to grain imports ordered from Canada and the U.S., China does not face the acute hunger it did in the early 1960s. Nonetheless, the official journal Red Flag has urged every Chinese to eat one mouthful less each day. "In a country with a large population like ours," said the article, "when a person saves a mouthful of grain a day, he will save a peck in a year, and the whole nation will save up to a hundred million catties [50,000 metric tons] of grain...