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...always painful to watch on old idol topple. This time it was embarrassing as well. Isaac Asimov's contribution to the anthology was an agonizingly moralistic little tale entitled "Segregationist." It's all about this surgeon who is a robot, you see, and he's trying to convince a VIP who's qualified to receive an artificial heart to accept a fiber heart instead of a metal one because he doesn't like to see "mongrelization" between humans and robots--except that you aren't suppose to know until the end that he's a robot. That's because...
...printed a continuing debate be tween Authors Isaac Asimov and Ar thur C. Clarke over the existence of a particle that travels faster than light...
...Impossible, that's all," Asimov insisted in 1967. "Possible, that's all," retorted Clarke in a recent issue. Feinberg's fascination is understandable. The particle is his conception, although he is still not certain that it really exists...
...education are special student editions and rates, free college advertisements, a weekly Teacher's Guide to TIME, classroom wall maps and charts, a study guide to the Foreign Policy Association's Great Decisions, and TIME's Guide to the Year 2000, written by Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the world's foremost forecasters of future socio-scientific realities...
Teachers enrolling ten or more students in the program also receive specially produced teaching aids like The Year 2000, written for the TEP by Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the nation's leading commentators on the future, and The 50th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Aside from quizzes in the guide, TIME'S famous 100-question Current Affairs Test is also given to students in the program. Last year over 2.5 million students checked their knowledge of current events by this test. Other aids include: TIME CAPSULE/1941, a condensation of that historic year as reported in the pages...