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...Chemistry of Visions. Physicians have long suspected that even the visions of religious mystics were the result of some change in body chemistry brought on by self-hypnosis, pain, breath control, or intense hunger. Pahnke and Richards suggest that drug-induced mystical experiences may have a profound therapeutic effect on the subjects. Those who experience such releasing of their intuitive unconscious claim "increased personality integration, greater sensitivity to the authentic problems of other persons, responsible independence of social pressure." They sense "deeper purposes in life, lose their anxiety of death and guilt...
...real or imagined foes of Mao Tse-tung everywhere, reports from the northwestern city of Sian told of a three-day clash between revolutionary students and provincial party leaders who refused to go along with their idiotic demands. To humiliate the bureaucrats, the students finally staged a mass hunger strike in front of party headquarters. In Kwangtung province, scores of Red Guards were beaten by villagers after the youths set fire to a temple...
...chilling flesh-and-blood story of what life can be like in the ghetto slums of large U.S. cities. The Senators got an uncomfortable view of places where people have to hustle for pocket money and a moment's pleasure, where honesty's reward is hunger, and where prostitution, illegitimacy and crime are socially accepted ways of life. Chairman Ribicoff was moved to ad mit: "We seem to be talking about two different worlds...
...Balance Sheet. In a nation with a 25% literacy rate, the Parsis can boast that more than 90% of the sect's members can read and write. Despite the widespread hunger and poverty of India, the Parsi poor rarely starve; in the city of Bombay alone, one trust established by wealthy members of the sect provides low-income housing for more than 6,000 Parsi families and welfare payments for the unemployed...
...ancestry back more than 130 years to the founding in 1835 of the New York Herald by James Gordon Bennett Sr. and the founding in 1841 of the New York Tribune by Horace Greeley. Bennett's Herald was a lively penny paper that taught U.S. journalism to hunger for fresh news. The Herald sent boatloads of reporters to meet arriving ships at sea; by the time a ship landed they had already interviewed the passengers for European news. And it was the Herald that sent Stanley after Livingstone. Greeley's Tribune, on the other hand, was urbane, circumspect...