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...major cause of illegitimacy is more sex among younger people in a pleasure-oriented society. Says Jane Murray-of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which specializes in family planning: "We live in a world of tight jeans." Specialists in the field also stress the inability of teen-agers to understand the use of contraceptives or the consequences of nonuse. Says one Chicago girl: "Birth control pills-I'd heard of them. People tell me they make your hair fall out." Captain Carol Bryant, who runs the Salvation Army's Booth Memorial home for unwed mothers in Chicago, talks...
...President characterized the recession as "slight and, I hope, short." Murray Weidenbaum, his chief economic adviser, predicted that recovery would begin early in 1982. Some private forecasters, however, foresee a serious slump dragging on until the middle of next year. Nor is there any indication yet how much the recession might bring down inflation, if at all. In fact, consumer prices in September leaped up at a shocking annual rate...
...threatened by the Reagan Administration's budget cutters, this scientific assault on the cosmos may come to a halt. At a meeting in Pittsburgh last week, astronomers warned that the cuts will mean "extinction" for the planetary program. These words were echoed by Bruce Murray, director of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who asked: "Are we so obsessed with our present difficulties that we would give up investing in our future...
Some space scientists hope that the Reagan Administration or Congress will be persuaded to reconsider. But Murray is taking no chances. In a message to J.P.L.'s 4,000 worried employees last week, he announced he would seek other contracts-mainly military and energy-to keep the world-famed facility in business...
According to James Murray of Chicago's Policy Research Corp., "there'll be a $50 billion to $100 billion annual market for agribusiness applications of genetic engineering by 1996-ten times the potential of medical-pharmaceutical applications." Within the past ten years, giant companies like Atlantic Richfield, Pfizer, Shell, Upjohn, Ciba-Geigy and Occidental Petroleum have bought seed companies, the obvious distributors of the products of agrigenetics...