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EDITORS NOTE: Most students have speculated, at some point or another, whether it is possible to ace Harvard exams without actually studying. In 1950, The Crimson published "Beating the System," by Donald Carswell '50, which seemed to provide an answer. The piece won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing in 1951, and since then The Crimson has proudly reprinted Carwell's work as a service to its readers. In 1962, one anonymous grader was irked enough to write a lengthy reply...
Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...With reporting by Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi, Helen Gibson/ London, Donald Macintyre/Tokyo and Amany Radwan/Cairo
...didn't originate with Lovins, but few people do a better job of combining them into a clear vision. He calls that vision the Hypercar, and last year he spun off Hypercars, Inc., from RMI to advise the industry on how to make one. "Lovins' imagination is boundless," says Donald Runkle, executive vice president of Delphi Automotive Systems. He warns, though, that Lovins "tends to discount the cost factor." Composites, for example, are now much more expensive than steel. Lovins argues that when built in volume, Hypercars will cost about the same as today's cars...
Paleontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee agree. In a provocative new book, Rare Earth, they maintain that in most places beyond Earth, radiation and heat levels are so high, life-friendly planets so scarce and the cosmic bombardments--like the one that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago--so severe that the only life-forms that might make it would be bacteria-like critters living deep in the soil. The odds against technologically advanced societies, they argue, are astronomical...