Word: bomb
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...time, when you think about old Henry Ford's gizmo that was supposed to save a peck of time. Only instead of conquering the open road, we wound up living on it. You've got a point. You a college boy? But this is the country of the A-bomb and the zipper. We always save time, good and bad. Tempus fugit. Time is money. Most of all, time is dreams. And computers give you time for dreams...
Right now we're frozen into the ice so tightly that we may get to the point where only a bomb can blast us out. A conflict in China or the Middle East or any place could lead to the ultimate disaster. We've got to avoid that...
...teachers last year. One reason: the 10% who pursue college math or science degrees can easily better the typical teacher's $13,000 starting salary by going into industry. The lack of young faculty replacements for math and science teachers is causing what some call an "age time bomb"; the average age of a science teacher in Minnesota was 34 a decade ago and is 40 now. "In most school districts when math teachers retire, there is no money to hire another one," explains Elois Irvin, a high school math teacher in Richmond, Calif. "So they just send...
Americans have been living with the Bomb for more than 35 years, but not until 1982 did many begin reading about it. This year there are some 250 books about nuclear weaponry available, more than ten times as many as a decade ago. The Reagan Administration is largely responsible for the sudden, widespread interest. Frequent statements from senior officials that nuclear war may be not only thinkable but winnable have had almost exactly the opposite of their intended effect. Instead of rallying the nation to the cause of stronger defense, the Administration's policy has attracted new voters...
...title of Scheer's book, With Enough Shovels, derives from a particularly bizarre interview with Thomas K. Jones, a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. Jones is an enthusiast for civil defense and do-it-yourself bomb shelters. "Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors and then throw three feet of dirt on top," he said. "It's the dirt that does it... If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody's going to make...