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...fact-finding group of which I was a part set forth the following goals: to comprehend more accurately the facts of the Iranian point of view; to both hear and share points of view with Iranian people, especially with Islamic leaders; to explore means of dealing with the issue of the hostages, their condition, and release; and to further interreligious and intercultural understanding in hope of reaffirming and restoring friendship between American and Iranian peoples. During the 11 days we were in Iran, we were in complete control of our own schedules. We determined what we would do, whom...
HISTORY TEACHES that whenever the masses feel they no longer comprehend, or are not part of the decisions and changes implemented by a select power elite, a reaction challenging the authority of that group is unavoidable. Whether we label it a revolution or a "conservative shift" depends, basically, on our perception of affairs as they were in the past. In the arts, the power elite is the artists themselves, who increasingly appear to be fashioning their works for their own aesthetic. Now an artist who exhibits individuality and originality is to be praised, and one who sets no limits...
IMPELLED, DRIVEN AWAY from his desk and the study of a history he could no longer comprehend or even cared to, by a small spot that expanded, grew, shouldered against the facts he had stored in his brain; the constant pushing made sleep impossible, even when sleep was assisted by--or perhaps itself driven away--by several slugs from a bottle of cheap bourbon. A ring of light glowed in the east past the Charles, like the necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history...
...woefully littered with numbers that defy useful comprehension. Biology, for example, estimates that the human brain contains some 1 trillion cells. But can any imagination get a practical hold on such a quantity? It is easy to picture the symbolic numerals: 1,000,000,000,000. Still, who can comprehend that many individual units of anything at one time? The number teases, dazzles the mind and even dizzies it, but that does not add up to understanding. Biology ought to find out what happens to the brain when it tries to visualize 1 trillion...
...scale. And the ranking of test items in order of difficulty for blacks, he says, is exactly the same as the ranking for whites. "This means the items are working the same way, measuring the same things," says Jensen. It also strongly suggests, he thinks, that blacks and whites comprehend the world in much the same way, despite arguments that "black culture" is so different from "white culture" that separate tests should be constructed...