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...should also try to decide a set of fiscal priorities--for instance whether the relatively expensive athletics program should continue to be subsidized by all students, even though a relatively small percentage participate in it. Few other Radcliffe issues have aroused such passion as the housing debate. The hunger strike required to make student opinion clear to Administration and Council still is monument to the lack of communication between the two parts of the College...
...warns them that the search will corrupt their souls. When he majored in English literature at Columbia University, for example, he remembers being confronted by the cult of failure that imbued most of his fellow students. They felt that while sex was a natural and admirable passion, a hunger for worldly success was ignoble. For a star student who wanted to be a great and famous poet, that attitude quite naturally caused some troubling guilt feelings...
...Wretched Humanity, terrorized in China, Southern Arabia and Yemen; dying of hunger in India and Palestine; beset by war in Nigeria, the Near East and North and South Viet Nam; stifling in slums and poverty the world over; and enslaved in East Germany and countless other nations...
...housewife today wants her food completely prepared for her before she buys it, does not this add considerably to the cost of food in the supermarket? Furthermore, as a nation, we still enjoy the lowest food costs (in terms of annual income of consumers) of any industrial nation. True, hunger stalks half the world, but the U.S. farmer will not gain much by giving food away-the good feeling one gets from acts of charity will not help pay off the implement and fertilizer companies. Perhaps what concerns me the most is that a city slum dweller with an income...
Space to Spare. An hour later, Washkansky regained consciousness and tried to talk. So carefully isolated from possible infection that even his wife Ann was persuaded not to visit him for four days, he showed improvement day by day. After 36 hours he complained of hunger and ate a typical hospital meal, including a soft-boiled egg. As a further guard against infection, the doctors dosed him with antibiotics. His donated heart, healthy and compact, jumped around somewhat uneasily in the cavity left by his own enlarged heart, but this space would soon shrink naturally. The heart gradually slowed...