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...including food. Sugar and most fruits, for example, tend to be very yin, while meats and eggs tend to be very yang. The trick is to balance one's menus to maintain a 5-to-l proportion of yin to yang. Since brown rice in itself contains this ratio, it is the principal food of the diet...
...realize that his statements must indeed be similar to those held by the rest of the administration. Obviously, if this university did not want to discriminate against women, it would not maintain its blatantly discriminatory practices on every level: It would not have a 4 to 1 admission ratio in the undergraduate college, and similar (though not so conveniently institutionalized) policies in graduate schools; it would have women on its faculty and in its administration; it would not feel embarrassed to reserve "for men only" such privileges as tickets to football games and use of the athletic facilities...
...usually takes at least eight years before a U.S. college graduate can practice medicine on his own. As a result, the world's best medical training has a serious flaw: the U.S. has only one physician for every 650 people, compared with the Soviet ratio of one to 400 and the Italian figure of one to 580. One out of 50 Americans has no access to a doctor under any circumstances. To cure the shortage, the nation's chief health officer, Dr. Roger Egeberg, prescribes an immediate injection of 50,000 new physicians -a 15% increase in those...
White Losses. All the rise in unemployment during this year's third quarter occurred among whites; the black rate held unchanged at 8.5%. That is 1.7 times as much as the white rate, but the ratio of black to white unemployment usually runs 2 to 1 and is now the lowest in 17 years. One reason is that black workers are concentrated in the service trades and government jobs, where layoffs have been fewer than in manufacturing. Another is that there are not many blacks in the depressed aerospace industry. In addition, black factory workers by now have built...
...most important issue in the campaign has been the composition of the CRR. The nine candidates have advocated a change in the present eight to six faculty student ratio. According to David I Cohen '72, "If the committee is going to be effective, it must be student oriented. The present set-up is totally unacceptable...