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salmonella poisoning in
Minnesota. All these
cases were caused by
Salmonella newport.
a
virulent strain. In each case,
the virus showed resistance
lo severa! common
ant1biotics.
COC determined that the
salmonella carne from beef.
Antibiotic resistance was
transferred lo human
bacteria when people ate
undercooked meat or
became contaminated by
raw meat. A clear connection
between human diseases
and the use of drugs in
animal leed had been
discovered, concluded e
report by Dr. Scott Holmberg
1n the
New England Journal
o! Medicine. •
Computers:
Progress
Amid Perils
1
1
is the great paradox of
this age: Even as
technology explodes, world
evils multiply. And nowhere
has technology progressed
more than in the area of
computers.
1t has been four decades
since the computer
revolution began. In
1946
the University of
Pennsylvania completed the
first all -purpose,
40
Onein Six
Has Mental
Disorder
a bout
18.7
percent of
M
U.S. adults- more than
one in six-suffer from at
least one psychiatric ailment.
according toa six-year.
$15
mill ion survey conducted by
the National lnstitute of
Mental Health.
Oisabling anxiety, which
afflicts
13. 1
million
Americans, heads the lis! of
disorders that also includes
schizophrenia, depression
and substance abuse. Men
and women are about
equally troubled, according
to the survey.
The survey defined a
person with a mental
disorder as one needing
professional help. In other
words, a person with an
antisocial personality was
not merely someone who lost
his temper occasionally, but
all-electronic digital
computer. Called ENIAC for
short, it weighed 30 tons
and required
1,500
square
feet
{143
square meters) of
floor space.
ENIAC's creators
estimated that the device
could perform calculations
more than
1,000
times
faster than the conventional
a person who had serious
adjustment problems with
tamily, school and
community before the age of
15
and who was often
electromechanical machines
of the day.
Today, a
$2,000
''knee-top'' portable
computer can perform
calcutations
20
times as fast
as ENIAC. And thanks lo
the silicon chip, by
1990
a
digital wristwatch will have
as much computing ability
as its ancient predecessor.
lndeed, we are in what
computer enthusiasts cal!
the "information age." Up
to
40
percent of the
Western world's work force
uses computers, either
directly or indirectty. The
aggregate computing power
of the computers sold
during the next two years
will be greater than that of
the more than one million
ENIAC, jirst electronic
computer (1946}, weighed
30 tons. Digital
wristwatches wi11 soon have
as much computing power
as ancient ENIAC.
According lo institute
director Darrel Regier , the
study, the largest of its kind
ever conducted, may prove
fruitful in identifying risk
factors in mental disorders. •
computers sold in the tasi
tour decades.
But the more we look to
computers to offer solutions
to staggering global
problems, the greater the
number of millions of
humans who suffer and die
from lamine, disease, civil
unrest, terrorism and
technological accidents.
Of course, technology
has not by itself caused
world evils, but neither can
it solve them. As John
Naisbitt pul it in his
best-selling book
Megatrends,
"We are
drowning in information but
starved for knowledge."
A closer examination of
why humanity's technical
advances have failed to
solve human problems is
ava1lable in our free booklet
Never Be/ore Understood–
Why Humanity Cannot So/ve
lts Evils
Jusi mail the card
in this 1ssue or write lo our
address nearest you. •
The
PLAIN
TRUTH