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...HAMER E. WALLIS Darwin, Australia
Some of the near misses were almost equally frightening. One captain on an intercontinental flight to Darwin, Australia, reported that after 14 hours of duty and 25 hours without sleep, "both my first officers fell asleep more than once ... and, in fact, I had to waken one of them to give him the approach briefing." Another pilot dozed off while awaiting clearance to take off on a London to Frankfort flight. In one instance, an exhausted flight crew missed an airport altogether. It landed at Sharjah on the Persian Gulf rather than at Dubai, which is six miles away...
...died looking at a present from him. When the flabbergasted Soviets asked how he could possibly know that, Hammer blandly replied that Lenin had died at his desk, on which there was only one object: a bronze statue, given by Hammer, depicting a monkey sitting on a book by Darwin and gazing at a skull...
...Third World comes close to being a metaphysical entity: that element in humanity which has not yet been machined down by technology and bureaucracy, though it may very well want to be. The Third World, he writes, "wavers between Buddha and Marx, Siva and Darwin, Allah and cybernetics." It is "a reflection of a past that antedates Christ and machines; it is also a determination to be modern." Paz concedes the course of events. "The Third World is condemned to modernity and the task confronting us is not so much to escape this fate as to discover a less inhuman...
Nonetheless, when the nine-man board met last week, it approved the concessions. Although fundamentalists were unable to force through a resolution requiring the teaching of biblical creation, their influence was strong enough to require that all statements on Darwin be sedulously qualified. Further, the board reserved the right to review editorial changes, and named an ad hoc commission to work with publishers on mandatory textual changes. Regardless of what the Nobel laureates might think, Associate Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Clarence Hall said that "California has adopted the best set of science materials available...