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...student who owes his primary allegiance to a community of equals is unlikely to be racked with ambition to climb the hierarchy of some established institution. On the contrary, the institution may have been compromised in his eyes. He does not feel so strongly the compulsion to outdo Daddy or the Joneses; he may pay them the supreme insult of ignoring their way of life altogether. Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton speaks of a new kind of "Protean Man" who has been cut adrift from the traditions and expectations of the past. Without moorings, he moves from one activity or ideology...
Deciding to trade one risk for another, NASA, without fanfare, changed its recovery plan. While Apollo 11 is still in the ocean, the hatch will be opened. As the astronauts emerge and climb aboard an attached raft, each will slip into a "biological isolation garment" brought along by a frogman who will be similarly outfitted. The suit is equipped with a filter that should block any organisms that the astronauts exhale. After a helicopter ride to the carrier deck, they will enter the van and follow the original quarantine plans...
...possible unless the teacher believes that the process by which he teaches is sound. We believe that the same must be true about learning." The same is true about learning. The Committee--a group of men with a vested interest in the system which has allowed them climb to the top of the ladder in legal education and in many cases in government--have trouble conceiving of the students' discontent except in terms of their own problems...
Everett, an experienced climber and the first American to scale the four major peaks of North America, had one serious gap in his expertise: he had never climbed in the Himalayas. Neither had the other U.S. members of his team, though all were skilled climbers. Everett was determined to scale Dhaulagiri I by its knifelike southeast ridge, a route never before attempted. He was racing a deadline: because the arrival of monsoon rains in early June would make further climbing immensely risky, the climb had to be accomplished in April and May. The team gathered in Katmandu early last month...
THOUGH prices are in their steepest climb in 18 years, Washington's economic seers have repeatedly insisted, as Nixon Adviser Herbert Stein said last week, that "we have turned a corner." Now, at last, there is confirmation of sorts in a group of economic telltales known as the "leading" indicators...