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Corey taught a generation of chemists to think like those chess masters who start with their vision of a winning board position and then work backward. His method for breaking down compounds, bond by bond, into smaller and smaller components is so rigorously logical that it can be taught to a computer, although Corey says it will be some time before chemistry has the equivalent of a computerized Kasparov...
Perhaps race is the wrong word for this season, since most of the contestants are running backward. In the American League's Eastern Division, the Toronto Blue Jays struggle to realize their vaunted potential and atone for a notorious swoon three years ago, when they lost a 3 1/2-game lead in the final week. Such a hex would be no burden to Toronto's rivals, the Boston Red Sox, who groan under a curse of mythological heft. The Sox, as their minions are ever mindful, have gone 72 years without winning a World Series. At Fenway Park, a fan holds...
Prime Minister V.P. Singh's decision eight weeks ago to give 27% of government jobs to the so-called backward classes might strike outsiders as a reasonable step toward helping India's downtrodden millions. But last week 11 students protested Singh's plan by committing suicide, five by self-immolation, while 70 others attempted to set themselves on fire. At the same time, students all over the north, mostly from the upper castes, battled police in India's worst outbreak of violence since the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
...Henry Rosovsky has been through [the search process] from the other side," says Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences John E. Dowling '57. "Certainly he has been through this backward and forward...
...Atlantans undertook to rebuild their gutted city 125 years ago, they had to grapple with being a symbol of the country's most backward cultural, social and economic leanings. Now Atlanta considers itself the capital of the "New South"; while the rest of the South became embroiled in violent reaction against the Civil Rights movement, booming Atlanta boasted of being "the city too busy to hate...