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...quiet, modest, at first hesitant to discuss his work, as if it just materialized around him one day as he led his "basic Jewish suburban life" in Roslyn, Long Island. He describes himself as having "a knack for finding something to do," and he does seem simply to drift into one interesting project after another, armed with a natural talent for anything and everyting theatrical...
Determined to halt the downward drift of the school system, Boston area businesses have been stirred into action. In an imaginative program announced last week, nearly three dozen companies set a fund-raising goal of $5 million to help cover the tuition costs of any public high school graduate who is accepted by a college. What's more, the companies pledged to give the students priority in hiring after graduation. Says Edward Phillips, a leader of the effort and chairman of New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., which donated $1 million to the plan: "Our goal is that no qualified...
While continental drift has been relocating other land masses over the past 45 million years, Axel Heiberg Island has remained relatively stationary in its Arctic home. The fact that lush forests could have grown so far north indicates that the climate there was once far more hospitable. In fact, scientists have long known that during the early part of the Tertiary period, which began about 65 million years ago, the entire planet was warmer, probably due to carbon dioxide that spewed into the atmosphere during movements of the earth's crust. The result was a greenhouse effect, in which...
...leaders to control everything effectively. That is as true for government officials in advanced nations, with their panoplies of statistics and computer printouts, as it is for bureaucrats of Third World countries where information may be limited and technical resources few. "It used to seem to me that the drift of all Western countries was toward something like socialism," says Economist Robert Heilbroner, a leading socialist thinker. "But now, when I reflect on what is happening in the / 1980s, it is not so clear. There is a sense of a return to the market, because the task of planning...
...Nixon's resignation, the Arab oil embargo, the Iranian hostage crisis. Jimmy Carter was apparently overwhelmed by the presidency. The Club of Rome's Spenglerian predictions about the earth's shrinking resources shadowed the '70s, and Carter at last announced that there was a malaise in the land. The drift was bleak: things would get worse and worse and never get better again. Reagan's immediate predecessors were smudged by a darkness of failure and were all unhorsed by events they lost control of. Reagan's psychic weather is bright sunshine, and so far he has managed to keep...