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Such accomplishments would be fulfillment enough for most humans. But they attest to only a few of MacCready's many skills. He has piloted conventional aircraft as well as sailplanes and hang gliders, is an ardent environmentalist and a successful entrepreneur, the founder and president of AeroVironment Inc., a small, innovative firm that specializes in monitoring and cleansing the environment, alternative energy and energy-efficient vehicles. He also frequently dons the hat of an educator, lecturing at schools, universities and business meetings, urging the formal teaching of the kinds of "thinking skills" he feels are necessary to meet growing environmental...
...slices if the pie is larger? But Government interest payments do nothing to make the pie any larger -- except to the extent that the borrowed money was invested productively. And the share of Government spending going to productive investment has declined over the decade, as our crumbling infrastructure can attest. So interest payments on the national debt have made at least a small contribution to income inequality without any growth payoff. If traditional welfare is paying people not to work (a common gripe), this is the capitalist equivalent: paying money not to work...
...Squash Blossoms" are also on view, but they lack the power of some of her larger, better-known paintings. Still, the last group of paintings is no disappointment. Works such as Charles Sheeler's oil on board "Oranges," a vibrant still-life of the fruit on a table, attest to the growing sophistication yet enduring honesty of the American art of that period...
Crimson reporters can attest to the great reluctance that I have hitherto shown to add fuel to the dispute between Sociology and Social Studies. But Acting Sociology Department Chair Orlando Patterson's "commentary" does suggest that a few words--half in anger, half wracked with laughter--from a teacher with a foot in both camps may cast light on some of the issues involved...
American economists are writers of humorous fiction, as the U.S.-budget fantasies attest, but John Kenneth Galbraith's droll, mannered novels are funny on purpose. In his first, The McLandress Dimension (1963), the Harvard professor introduced a concept that measured the time -- often a matter of milliseconds -- that public figures spend thinking of matters unrelated to themselves. The new novel, his third, explores the equally valuable IRAT, or Index of Irrational Expectations, a quantification of the collective wrongheadedness of the stock market. Harvard technocrat Montgomery Marvin, known for his seminal study of refrigerator pricing, invents IRAT and becomes exceedingly rich...