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...anyone who reads the literature can attest, most mountain climbers cannot write. Fair enough; most writers cannot climb. Jeremy Bernstein is the exception to both rules. When he is at sea level, Bernstein is a physics professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. He also contributes lucid and entertaining pieces to The New Yorker on such abstruse subjects as particle physics and summit-level mathematics. In his less cerebral hours, Bernstein ascends rock surfaces, especially those surrounding the Chamonix Valley of France, and writes compelling pieces about the peaks and the people who scale them...
...some Soviet technicians shopping in Kabul's bazaars. The grocer hides his best produce when he sees the Russians coming. A jeweler has a simpler defense: he just doubles his prices to the Russians. While the 3,000 to 4,000 Soviet civilian and military advisers in Afghanistan attest to Moscow's interest in the country, Kabul is not Prague or Budapest, where tanks can be rolled in quickly to enforce the Brezhnev Doctrine. Afghanistan does have one main highway, but it merely connects the four main cities like a huge beltway. The country is bisected...
...professionalization," but I am not sure where some of those who argue against professional schooling or academic specialization of one sort or another think they have chosen to go to school. Despite what the Admissions Office might say, and as our own experiences in innumerable petty situations will attest, Harvard is hardly just a liberal arts college. To act as if Harvard College equals Harvard University--and that undergraduate opinion and requirements should be satisfied above all else--is to choose to ignore part of Harvard's basic nature as a major scientific and research institution...
...heart of a lady fair? Be her bodyguard, or so two famous young ladies would attest. Susan Ford, 21, freelance photographer and only daughter of former President Gerald and Betty Ford, plans to marry Charles Frederick Vance, 37, a Secret Service agent and divorcee who met his future bride in June 1977 when assigned to a year's duty as a guard for the Ford family. Patty Hearst, 24, still in jail for bank robbery, is planning to marry Bernard Shaw, 30, a San Francisco cop who was one of her bodyguards when she was free on bail last...
...activist consumerism have also made people more alert to possible claims against institutional America. The act of suing, in short, has become less personal, and when the defendant is an institution, people do not suppose anybody is getting hurt. But as high insurance rates and doctors' bills attest, a damage payment that hurts nobody is as rare as a truly free lunch...