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...thousandth of a rem) as the maximum radiation that the general public can be safely exposed to in one year. That is a very small amount. By comparison, the sun and other natural radiation sources expose the average individual to about 100 millirems each year. A single chest X ray can double the natural dose...
Congress designed Medicaid as a patchwork program. Each state could join after its plan was approved by HEW. The minimum benefits, which every state must provide for all "public assistance" (meaning welfare) recipients, are 1) in-and out-patient hospital care, 2) other laboratory and X-ray services, 3) nursing-home treatment and physicians' services. The patient's eligibility depends on the state's definition of need. That may be anywhere between $2,448 family annual income, as in Oklahoma, and $5,000, in New York...
...cent of the students don't attend classes in seeming support for the "Valentine's Day 17" The University News Office releases a statement saying attendance at classes was normal. H-R X issues a press release confirming that that was the normal attendance...
...potent a parable of Germany as Wagner's Ring cycle, which it outdoes in zestful vulgarity. The actors all perform with an unbridled bravado, the cinematography is properly bilious, and there are enough sex scenes-a good many of them homosexual-to get the movie rated ten-X, like a box of confectioner's sugar. But The Damned deserves the reaction it encourages. It is an outrageous film with awesome pretentions that paradoxically make it far from artistic but close to enjoyable...
...Drop sacred names, but be sure which names to drop. Remember the basic rule: the safest saint is a dead saint -Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Frantz Fanon. Be particularly careful about bringing up Herbert Marcuse. His importance, Carl Oglesby warns, may have been "badly overstated." "He is not the kind of writer whose books explode one out of the study." (The cardinal sin of the New Left writer is to keep his readers off the streets...