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...must admit that this line of reasoning made a strange impression on me-one not at all favorable to Academician Kapitsa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Troubles with Intellectuals | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...done penance. Kapitsa, too, is only human, and he made a mistake by refusing to work on military problems. My mistake was in refusing to let him go abroad. So, as people used to say when I was a child, we can call it quits. I now ask Academician Kapitsa, whom I've always respected as a great scientist, to forgive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Troubles with Intellectuals | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...support and applaud the nomination of Academician Andrei Sakharov for the Nobel Prize for Peace, as proposed by my friend Alexander Solzhenitsyn [Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1973 | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

GENES ARE DESTINY. Not in many years has a respectable academician dared to say that man's fate lay in his stars or his genes. Social ills were attributed to the environment; change that and you change man. While the environment has been changing, man, apparently, has not. So renewed attention is being paid to genes. A number of iconoclasts, including Psychologists Arthur Jensen and Richard Herrnstein, argue that intelligence is largely inherited and cannot be significantly improved by family, schooling or any other environmental factor. A furious debate is now raging over this assault on egalitarianism. Blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Usefulness of Obsolescent Ideas | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...Treasury's George Shultz is a bundle of uncertainty, trying to uphold the disastrous economic policies that the President implemented, often over Shultz's objections. Behind his eyes is the deep worry of how George Shultz, an honored and respected academician, now appears to the real world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Barons on the Ramparts | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

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