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Universities increasingly count on the corporate world to absorb the glut of Ph.D.s. Such universities as Harvard, Pennsylvania, Stanford, Virginia, Texas and U.C.L.A. have set up programs to retool humanities Ph.D.s for jobs in the business sector. Says Ed Escobedo, director of career planning at Stanford: "Humanists can do just about anything. They possess writing abilities, administrative abilities and the ability to work with values." Since 1978, New York University has been conducting summer crash courses in accounting, finance, economics and marketing for scholars from all over the country. Of the 271 graduates, nearly all have got jobs...
...wings and chicken feathers in the home of the village's demon priest. Indeed, the story threw many TIME correspondents into unsettling situations. After spending five weeks in Central and South America, sidestepping bushmasters, vampire bats, tarantulas and poisonous caterpillars, New York Correspondent James Wilde began to absorb some of a missionary's faith. Ten times his plane braved door-mat-size jungle airstrips, and ten times Wilde paled while local Christians prayed. Says he: "The missionaries' good luck, like their sense of fulfillment, is contagious. I have never met a group I liked more...
...year in spite of efforts to reduce it. Demographers estimate that the population will reach more than 100 million by the turn of the century. Even if economic growth were to return to its precrisis rate, the country would be hard pressed to produce enough new jobs just to absorb the 800,000 youths who join the labor force every year...
...small pot held over the boiling water, melt 2/3 of the can of sweetened condensed milk, the peanut butter chips, and two tablespoons of butter, stirring constantly. If the handle of the pot gets too hot, use something thick like a tube sock to cover the handle and absorb heat. Which the mixture is thoroughly mixed, remove like heat and stir in the peanuts...
...attack coming. It also puts an almost inconceivable burden on the ability of a leader to react decisively yet wisely in a matter of minutes. That is why the superpowers have preferred to stick with a concept of stability posited on "mutual survivability," whereby each side could absorb a nuclear attack and then retaliate with devastating force. Dense Pack deployment of the MX would be a step toward a condition of "mutual vulnerability," in which each side would have an extra incentive to shoot first rather than retaliate, and that would be the most dangerous of all possible worlds...