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Considering its position as the world's largest producer of metal containers, American Can Co. remains understandably red-faced over its abortive 1929 attempt to set up shop in Britain. That year the company established a British subsidiary-only to meet with an unexpected fate. Joining forces to fend...
The Great Container. Primitive rituals, continues Mumford, were "basic to the whole development of human culture"; they stabilized Paleolithic man through repetitive acts that produced predictable effects. Early man was first a collector and later a hunter; from animals he learned how to gather food before discovering how to kill...
Too often Mumford sounds like a narrow literary intellectual, or he ignores obvious holes in his theories. It is provincial today to say "language is the great container of culture." What about other forms of communication-music? painting? mathematics? Mumford describes kings as the first technological totalitarians-but tends to...
Each week, by plane, train, truck - and local mail carriers, TIME is rushed to its readers in 185 countries. And sometimes, given unexpected help, the magazine's circulation reaches far beyond our far-reaching distribution system. For more than three years, 37 readers on an isolated Pacific island have...
If 21st Century doesn't always startle its audience to this extent, it invariably manages to give it pause. In earlier programs, it photographed an operable mechanical grasshopper that man will use on the moon, and an esoteric airtight container that will extract water from moon rock by heating...