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...abysmal international ranking of American medicine among developed countries is a stark reminder of how much room for potential improvement there is in America's health care system today. If we are able to integrate effectively all of the successful and most valuable components of conventional and alternative medicine, the new system of health care which results would revolutionize cost, efficacy and most importantly, quality of patient care for all individuals...
...simple double desks of the twins, and the pantomime rostrum of C.B. draw attention to how stark the set is--a draped dais surrounded by twenty telephones, with other furniture passim. Such an arrangement is hard to dislike and equally hard to fathom. Is it the device-crazed silliness of modern life that leads it on? Or a nihilistic take on that culture? Or a big sardonic joke free of philosophical posture...
...being put on the street by cutbacks in the civil service and state industries. Estimates of the number of unemployed run as high as 142 million, 12 million in the cities and the rest in rural areas. Tensions caused by layoffs and other wrenching social changes were cast in stark relief three weeks ago, when the Wuhan bomb explosion killed 16 and wounded 30. Suspects include both disgruntled workers and Muslim separatists...
...wonder the young hitched a ride to another America: a sweet-smelling place of laughter and music and bad poetry, where a sugar cube under the tongue could demolish the authority of reason itself. The prankster visions of the Acid Tests swirled around the stark realities of American power, and the decade found its signature moments: a flower in a gun barrel, a Defense Secretary scowling out a Pentagon window at the hippies trying to levitate his fortress. When Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election, in March 1968, he was tacitly admitting that the freaks might...
...male counterparts. The Bee's tradition of donating a book to the group's collection moves in the direction of an intellectualism eschewed by the final clubs. The effort (transparent as it may be) to encourage diversity betrays some vague awareness of reality that stands out in stark comparison to that held by Douglas Sears '69, president of the Interclub Council, who legitimizes the final clubs by maintaining, "Men have always wanted a place of their own where they wouldn't have to compete with women...