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Though racial gaps have closed somewhat over the last four years. Whitla's study projects nearly a sixfold difference between the House with the greatest percentage of Blacks (Currier, with 13 33 percent) and the one with the least (Eliot with 2 31 percent...
...hope it offered was usually a lifetime in a wretched mental hospital. In recent years, advances in drugs and psychotherapy, along with a trend toward returning mental patients to their communities, have reduced the average length of confinement. In New York State, the past 15 years have seen a sixfold increase in successful insanity pleas-from eight a year to 50. But the tendency to turn such patients loose has also led to a growing public perception that the streets are filling up with dangerous defendants who were found insane and then quickly released. In such a climate, legislators could...
Wood is by far the most promising popular biomass fuel, especially in the thickly forested areas. In northern New England, where energy costs 26% more than the national average, nearly 20% of all homes rely on wood as a primary heating source. Its use has grown sixfold since 1970 because 1) new, all-enclosed wood stoves increase heat efficiency way above that of open fireplaces, and 2) new central-heating furnaces that burn both wood and oil can save up to 200 gal. of oil for each cord (128 cu. ft.) of wood consumed. A New England Congressional Caucus study...
...fashioned Yankee self-reliance and vast stands of hardwood forests stretching from the Canadian border to the New York City suburbs are combining to help free the region from its 80% dependence on foreign oil. Since 1970, the use of wood for energy in New England has grown sixfold, and in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire a full 18% of all households now rely on the fuel as their primary heating source. People are simply finding that they can save money by putting a wood stove or furnace in their homes, and then going out to the backyard and cutting...
...denied Lewis a professorship because his popular writings were deemed unseemly-as, indeed, was his outspoken Christianity. (He moved to a chair at Cambridge late in his career.) But Lewis has survived Oxford's judgment handsomely. Sales of Lewis' works in Britain and the U.S. have increased sixfold since his death, and this year readers in both countries will take home more than 2 million Lewis volumes. Says Lady Priscilla Collins, one of Lewis' publishers in Britain: "The trend...