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...rhetoric of academia was still being pushed from above, Summers explains, but Mahan discovered that the reality of campus life was that students are regrettably driven much more by preprofessional ambitions...
With a crisis approaching, Dyson ordered that results of the June 20 survey be sent to him while he attended a reunion at his family's Argentine ranch. Aides telephoned the report to Buenos Aires, where it was tape-recorded and driven six hours to the Dyson spread. It arrived as the executive was dining on a freshly slain and roasted heifer. Reading the document, Dyson realized that consumer anger was reaching critical levels. Says he: "You can get a wonderful perspective on some problems when you are half a world away...
Even without the rationale of superpower cooperation or scientific benefit, the delegates agreed, human beings will eventually land on Mars, driven by nothing less than good old-fashioned nosiness. "We will never be satisfied with data streams and pictures from some distant planet," said Schmitt. "We want to be there." Concluded James Beggs: "Humans to Mars? Why not?" --By Natalie Angier. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington
...Princeton, New Jersey, largely ignored it." But a subtext soon makes itself apparent. Within a few pages the book becomes not merely an examination and celebration of one of the few authentic amateur sports. It is also a close analysis of addiction. For these rowers are, to a man, driven, single-minded, type-A combatants who make better companions on the page than they could possibly be in life...
...election day, busloads of illiterate voters were driven to polling places. Under the watchful eyes of Haitian officials, they voted quietly and repeatedly for the measures, approving the referendum by an overwhelming 99.9% margin. Washington tried to make the best of it. Said one State Department official: "With all of its flaws, the Haitian government is doing what it can." ITALY "Actions and Omissions...