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Recruiting Tales: The future looks much brighter for the Crimson; the recent NCAA cutbacks in women's hockey scholarships have given Harvard the chance to compete in recruiting areas it never could have before...
...factories rose 5.3% in December; sales of new houses gained 6.3%; worker productivity, or output per man-hour, leaped 2.7% in 1992 for the biggest gain in 20 years. In spite of continuing layoffs at some of the country's largest employers, even the job market looks suddenly brighter. The months of what has ironically been termed "jobless prosperity" may be ending: unemployment in January fell to 7.1% of the civilian labor force, down from 7.3% the month before and the lowest figure in exactly a year...
Scientists sort out X and Y carriers by tagging sperm with a fluorescent dye; under ultraviolet light, the X sperm glow brighter. Then the sperm are electrically charged -- positive for male, negative for female -- and a laser beam separates the two. Egg and appropriate sperm are mated in a glass dish, and the resulting embryo is implanted in a cow. The technique is about 90% reliable, which is pretty good odds for farmers to get more beef for the buck. Theoretically, a similar process could be developed for selecting human sex, though that ethical quandary does not appear imminent...
...forgotten instincts from the ravages of progress. ("Modern time, mon, modern time," runs the knelling refrain of Far Tortuga.) "The world is losing its grit and taste," he says with feeling. "The flavor of life is going." And he rises to highest eloquence when talking of the way ever brighter urban lights have caused a "loss of the night" -- the fading of the stars he knew as a boy and of the dark waters on Long Island Sound that used to terrify him. "I used to be able to record 16 species of wood warblers on my property...
...knowledge. They crowd the senses; they can simplify; they can yell. But they make an impact that sets in motion the deeper operations of judgment. The secular faith of the 20th century insists that history is progress, that time's arrow points the human race towards an ever brighter future. Then the world dissolves again into tribal bloodletting, and we wonder whether history is cyclical, always orbiting through the same thickets of hope and misfortune. When we look at news photographs, we bring to them the questions that history forces upon us: What should we think of human affairs? What...