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Label Blackout. For the average man who has no special susceptibility, Furman believes, the customary diet can be altered without imposing hardship. The 40-40-20 ratio of calories from fats, carbohydrates and protein need not be modified, provided only that the nature of the fats is changed. Furman's prescription: twice as much polyunsaturated fat as saturated...
SOUTH AMERICA'S present political plight can be summed up in one stark statistic: three out of every four of the continent's citizens now live under military regimes of one form or another. That ratio was created by the imposition two weeks ago of overt military rule in Brazil, where half the continent's 180 million people live. Yet even before that event, armed forces were in command in four other im portant countries-Argentina, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay-which stretch from the peaks of the Andes to the desolate plains of Tierra del Fuego...
Harry Reasoner reported on CBS's magazine-format "60 Minutes" that the letters CBS received ran 11 to one against the network's coverage. At NBC, the ratio was even larger...
...John Ehrlichman was quick to assure: "Computers won't be picking people-people will be picking people." Ehrlichman added that no special effort will be made to recruit members of minority races "in the sense that we will have a quota of 12% Negroes because that is the ratio of Negroes to the total population. That would be artificial...
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second...