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...broken by making 85% or more of the population immune. Until now, the cycle of infection has been spinning virtually unchecked in West Africa, killing 25% of the virus' victims and hideously disfiguring or blinding as many more. Measles, which carried a death rate of less than one-tenth of 1% in the U.S. even before vaccinations began, kills from 5% of children in some West African areas to 40% in others...
...suffering a lingering death. What, asked Ubell, persuaded Barnard that no treatment short of a transplant would be effective in Washkansky's case? For answer, Barnard showed a screen-filling photograph of Washkansky's original heart, so damaged by the growth of fibrous tissue that only about one-tenth of the muscle in its main pumping chamber was working properly...
...service. With ten major orchestras and seven opera houses, Austria has ample opportunities for musicians, and 4,000 of its youngsters are currently studying music with an eye to sharing in the rewards, financial as well as artistic. There are, in fact, 7,500 professional musicians in Austria -about one-tenth of 1% of the 7,000,000 population (the same percentage as in the U.S.). Says Vienna impresario Peter Weiser: "At 20, a young musician can have the solvency and social position of an advertising vice president." Top Viennese instrumentalists make the equivalent of $14,000 a year...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development, eager to cut down on air pollution and city traffic headaches, last week endorsed a snappy 9-ft. "minicar" that would be about half as long as today's intermediate Chevrolets and Fords, create one-tenth of the pollution. Developed under a $299,995 HUD grant to the University of Pennsylvania with help from General Motors, the three-passenger, 100-mile-range "hybrid" could whiz along highways at 60 m.p.h. on a small gasoline engine, switch to a battery-powered electric motor for tooling around town...
...done welll. In other words, the better the educational institution, the more likely it is to give students the feeling that they are incompetent or mediocre, and that they are not really very brilliant--unless they are fantastically talented. If they are only moderately talented, say in the top one-tenth of one percent of the population, they are likely to come out with the feeling of being only first-rate second-raters. The Peace Corps and like experiences (ACCION, AFSC, PAPAL Volunteers, etc.) may give such students a second chance for self-confidence...