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...Kahn left Rand to help form his own think tank, the Hudson Institute, on bucolic acreage north of New York City. He kept his umbilical cord of contracts with the Pentagon; approximately half of the institute's $3.6 million annual budget comes from Government contracts. But he also branched out to ponder other societal problems. Among the studies being pursued: prospects for electronic transmission of mail, ways to win a war in El Salvador, alternatives to the federal income tax, the strength of the Soviet navy. On a typical day, Kahn moved from seminars to informal discussions spouting such...
...Chancellor, to mid-April 1945, just two weeks before his death and the fall of the Third Reich. Each volume contains from 75 to 100 pages, written in black ink, many bearing Hitler's signature at the bottom. Upon completion, each diary was wrapped with a thin red cord and sealed with a red wax imprint of the swastika...
WHILE DOING research surgery on a rat recently, I had the unsettling experience of seeing the rat begin to move its rear leg. This reaction is common to animals under anaesthetic: it results from reflexes at the level of the spinal cord rather than conscious awareness of pain. I knew I had used the proper dose of anaesthetic, but I was disturbed nonetheless. I couldn't help imagining what it would be like to experience such surgery without anaesthesia...
...very easy, really. If every once in a while some poor kid gets the umbilical cord wrapped around its neck and can't breathe for a few minutes, HCA or whoever owns the hospital just raises its rates and shoots off $119 million to the unfortunate parents. And what happened to Andrea Ferris was of course an accident, probably as upsetting to the doctor who performed the operation as to the Ferrises themselves (at least one would hope...
...electrician called at my house at eight in the morning and as soon as the door was open, he said: "You have to change the electric iron's cord." Immediately realizing that he had come to the wrong door, he apologized and left. Hours later, my wife connected the iron, and the cord caught fire. There is no need to go on. It is enough to read the papers, and open one's eyes, in order to feel willing to shout along with the French college students: "Power to the imagination!" -Gabriel Garcia Márquez, commenting...