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...Harvard's prestige extends into more crucial matters. Professors here are accorded "seer" status, even when they turn out to be wrong. The slick newsweeklies typically chart a trend among young people by teeing off with the latest goings-on at Harvard. The Hotelworkers Union pension fund and the Jay Gould Foundation may have similar stocks tucked away in their protfolios, but if Harvard makes an investment, it is considered automatically sound...
...Clean Air Act. He argues that California, the state with the worst auto pollution, has a more reasonable law, based on what he says are much more complete public health data than were available to Congress in 1970. It sets somewhat more lenient standards on pollutants (see chart) than those in the national...
Although total U.S. rail travel continued its almost quarter-century decline last year (see chart), Amtrak logged a slight increase in passenger miles. In the five months ended last Sept. 30, the company carried 10.4% more riders than in the comparable period of 1971. The increase helped hold Amtrak's deficit in the first half of fiscal 1973 to $63 million-a huge amount, but down 9% from a year earlier...
Kinkade mentions, for instance, the practice of graphing the number of times one commits a specific behavioral flaw on a chart each day in order to reduce its incidence. But only a few people are interested in this practice, she says, "because most people don't care enough about it to be reinforced by it." A major criticism of Skinner's theory of human behavior is that it represents, in the words of Arthur Koestler, "question-begging on a heroic scale," and here is a perfect example. If people have to be interested in something before they can be reinforced...
Every few days, Marshall saw to it that F.D.R. got a casualty chart with the figures marked in color. Otherwise, the Chief of Staff explained, "you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them in the forefront of your mind." bed of "Making roses," war in a Marshall once democracy is noted. It no is tempting, reading Pogue's rich book, to speculate on how Marshall would have survived the democratic strains of another era - especially the bitter national divisions of the recent past. If he would not let one American...