Trying to track down a short story that I read in grade school in the mid 1970s -probably written in the late 60s-early 70s - might be considered YA lit today.   A scientifically curious boy reads the ingredient list on his breakfast cereal box and then discovers that the ingredient is in all food products except those food that are organic, those who eat organic are suspect as being non-conformist. The boy investigates the substance in a Library and finds out that it was used in population control experiments following rioting and social unrest by the Government in the past and is a banned substance. At home he has been allowed to have some lab rats (considered a "clean" animal) and he begins experimenting with feeding the rats some of the common foods found in the house. When he goes back to the Library he finds that all references to the substance are gone both books and from the computer database. At home his experiment with the rats has led to the ones that were fed food becoming very docile. He also goes to the store and discovers that the substance no longer appears in the ingredients list. He begs his father to get him food from the organic market which he does despite his fears of being labeled as a non-conformist by the authorities That night while watching a broadcast TV special that is about a boy who resembles him greatly who becomes more and more non-conformist and questioning of the authorities except the character is exaggerated - he has a horse that he experiments on instead of rats and attack the food market and librarian - eventually the TV character runs to the roof of the tower he lives in and throws himself off as doctors and the police and his parents try to save him.   He tries to tell people about the substance in the food and is chased by the police and the tenants of the tower to the top of the tower he lives in and is forced off the edge by the mob.  The population live in towers and go back and forth through underground tunnels - The world outside is pristine groomed parkland-The outside is considered "unsanitary" The boy also finds out that there are doors that open on the ground level to the outside.  He begins traveling back and forth on the surface despite the protests of his mother about it being unsanitary "out there" - This alone draws people to first consider him deviant.
I would have read this around 1985-1998 because I remember being in school at the time. It may have been in a short story collection with "The Ugly Little Boy" and a story about a family dealing with people in the future coming back to enhance the intelligence of their baby with enfante terrible results. A boy, grade school age or so and very intelligent, discovers (or possibly just decides) that there are drugs in the food that prevent one from thinking critically. The details are kind of fuzzy in my head, but I remember that he at one point distills the chemical from his cereal, which he'd detected as having a high concentration, and overdoses. He's convinced that the government is trying to silence him — a scene that sticks out in my mind was him falling on a moving sidewalk and tearing his clothing as he tries to escape two "men in black" type figures that are pursuing him. The short story ended with him deciding that he was better off just consuming the food and being happy in his ignorance.  Years later, as an adult learning about mental illness, it struck me that the story was slightly ambiguous as to whether there actually were chemicals, and that the use of drugs that dulled his creativity and intelligence, and the decision to take them anyhow, was reminiscent of the feelings that manic people have toward their medications.  Anyone know what this one was?
What Happened to The Latex Symbols In the Libreoffice-Texmaths Equation Editor? I recently purged Libreoffice because it was buggy.  I then reinstalled the latest version from apt and now it's missing the symbols above the equation editor.  Here is the current Texmaths equation editor:   There used to be shortcuts for latex including frac{}{} and various set theory operations, as well as the binomial distribution on the top of the window.  What happened to them and how do I get them back? I just figured that they were in some package and installed all packages useing sudo apt install libreoffice*, but this didn't help after I refreshed the program.  EDIT 0: I'm using Kubuntu 19.04  sarah@LesserArk:~$ sudo apt-cache policy libreoffice-texmaths libreoffice-writer texlive libreoffice-texmaths:   Installed: 0.43-2   Candidate: 0.43-2   Version table:  *** 0.43-2 500         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/universe amd64 Packages         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/universe i386 Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status libreoffice-writer:   Installed: 1:6.2.2-0ubuntu2   Candidate: 1:6.2.2-0ubuntu2   Version table:  *** 1:6.2.2-0ubuntu2 500         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/main amd64 Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status texlive:   Installed: 2018.20190227-1   Candidate: 2018.20190227-1   Version table:  *** 2018.20190227-1 500         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/universe amd64 Packages         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/universe i386 Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Use chown to set the ownership of all a folder's subfolders and files? 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