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...part of the national pastime of comparing anything from batting averages to the busts of beauty contestants. Now along comes the Midwest Research Institute, a Kansas City, Mo., think tank with an avalanche of facts, figures and judgments. Funded by a grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, MRI set out last year to measure the "quality of life" in the U.S.'s 243 official metropolitan areas, which range in size from New York (pop. 11.5 million) to Meriden, Conn, (pop. 56,000). Last weekend the results were published...
...suburbs; 4) health and education, including hospital occupancy and infant mortality rates, the percent of population enrolled in schools, the number of non-high school graduates; and 5) a grab bag of 54 "social components" that included racial equality, housing conditions and cultural facilities. All these data together, the MRI team decided, "show both the concerns of the individual and the well-being of the community." Then the researchers pushed a button, sat back and waited for the printouts...
...addition to vocal music, Shankar presented ten masters of strange-sounding wind and percussion instruments-the sarod, santoor, shehnai, sarangi, mri-dangam and venu. It was a first of sorts when the players all padded onstage to perform Shankar's ensemble piece, V-7½, a vigorous ten-minute raga played at a tricky 7½ beats to the bar. It was also the first time that so many Indian musicians had been seen west of Bombay on one Oriental...
Killing the Kouprey? There is no question in the minds of MRI scientists that chemical defoliation works in Viet
...present, there is little doubt that defoliation operations will continue. Says the MRI report: "The ecological changes caused by herbicides at the current rate of use have in no measure reached the proportion of ecological disturbance caused by the plow, ax and uncontrolled burning...