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...integrating theory is developed, the theory is tested, and finally the policy which that theory dictates is put into practice. Regretfully, a policy maker seldom has sufficient facts at his disposal to use the scientific method fruitfully. Facts are expensive to gather; policy makers lack sufficient time to digest all the facts, even if they are gathered; and, the accuracy of supposed facts is always subject to question. Most importantly, the press of time is always present...
There is smog in Shangri-La. Stashed on the shelf of the monastery library-that repository of wisdom and enlightenment for a weary world-is a Reader's Digest Condensed Book...
...such a soggy fantasy to be advancing; that the solution to the problem is, forget it, fix it later, is not. What does it matter if the world blows up, after all, if we have the happy valley, Methuselah-like longevity, and Burt Bacharach and the Reader's Digest to teach us the better...
...both T-and B-cells, sometimes just one variety. T-cells multiply and attack; the foreigners are soon surrounded and isolated by rings of angry lymphocytes that cause inflammation and chemically destroy the invaders. The T-cells may also call up macrophages, large scavenger cells that literally devour and digest foreign cells...
...classroom experience. The "classroom gold" which Monro has uncovered is a reading list of black authors--Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington and others. "Forget all these ideas that Hamlet is culturally useful," Monro says. "The students need to digest and think about these men and hammer out their feelings in discussions with their peers. Every young black person has awareness built into him. One thing the black college can do is shape this thing. Black literature and black history get right down to the fundamental problem of racism...