Teks Psikologi Sosial

THE FIELD OF SOCIAL

PSYCHOLOGY

Three men were attacked and one of them beaten to death when their car stalled on a street in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn early yesterday morning. The victims, who were on their way home from work, were black, and the police said the attack was unprovoked and “racially motivated.”

A 29 year-old unemployed father of eight children leaped onto the tracks of a Greenwich Village subway station yesterday morning and saved the life of a 75 year-old-blind man who had stumbled and fallen between the cars of a train that was about to pull out.

“I wasn’t thinking about the danger, just that, hey, somebody needs help,” said Reginald Andrews, who tore ligaments in his right knee as he pulled the confused, bleeding victim into a narrow crawlspace under the edge of the platform while others tried frantically to halt the train.

“I’d do it again-I’d do it for anybody who needs helps,” said Mr. Andrews.

In a Kamikaze-like attack, a man drove a truck loaded with thousands of pounds of TNT into an American military headquarters in Beirut, leveling the building, and killing over 200 sleeping Marines.

After another fruitless round of negotiations, United States and Russian arms negotiations meeting in Geneva adjourned the 121” session without reaching agreement.

Although political fortunes rise and fall, few instances are as dramatic as the career of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the early 1980s. Just one year after a national public opinion poll showed that the British public though she was the worst Prime Minister in history, she was swept back into office with the greatest landslide in forty years.

Teks Pendidikan Sex

SEX in SPACE

Dr. Roy Levin, Institute of Space Biomedicine, Sheffield University.

Dr. Levin has found that little is known about sexual physiology in space, and how people’s bodies work in these unusual conditions, “There’s the effect of the absence of gravity; the effect of radiation; and the effect of being caught up in the very small environment with a lot of other people. All these things are going to have effects on human sexuality and reproduction. At the moment the attitude is: don’t have sex in space because we can’t cope with it. But sooner of later it’s going to be a much grater problem, when we have long voyages – say three years to Mars.

I think the mixed crew space flight is going to be a real problem for both sexes. At the moment it’s usually that there’s one female, or two females and a larger number of males. But it will be interesting to think what would happen if you had six females and one male.” There are scientific advantages for women in space. “They use less oxygen, they use less food, they are equipped intellectually just as much as men. And they can also move objects physically just as much as men because of course, there’s no weight.”

    Is an all-women crew likely? “I don’t think so; men control the funds in space research. I think they would look aghast, although it would be the more sensible thing to do.”

What about the reproduction – having babies in space? “There’re too many problems at the moment to allow somebody to go through with this; although you can never tell with human beings. Nature will win out in the end.”

Teks Masalah gizi

FOOD, NUTRITION AND HEALTH

The Staff of Life

From birth to death, food is a dominant factor in our lives. In a single year, on a three-meal-a-day basis, most of us eat well over 1000 meals. We know that the food we eat is necessary for our very being-we know it provides the energy for the quite breathing at night and the full activity of the day. We know too that it builds, maintains, regulates muscles and bones, nerves and brain, eyes, hair and all our physical being.

But food does much more than nourish, for most of us enjoy eating. Food makes us fell secure and happy; we use food as a link in our friendships, as an expression of pleasure during our holidays, and as a symbol of our religious life.

Food is the world’s biggest business. A large part of the world’s work is concerned with the growing, processing, and preparation of food. In the United States one farm worker produces enough food for 25 persons, but think of all the people who work in the factories that process the food, in the markets that sells the food, or in restaurants, institutions, and homes that serve the food. We spend an important amount of our income for food. We have food in abundance an in variety.