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...only making a living, thank you, he has also become a star?indeed, a supernova of sorts?in the scientific firmament. Sagan's books, ranging from speculations about life beyond the earth (The Cosmic Connection) to ruminations about the reptilian ancestry of the human brain (The Dragons of Eden) have sold millions of copies and have been translated into a dozen languages. His lectures, on campus as well as off, attract overflow crowds. He is at home on late-night TV bantering with Johnny Carson about heavenly bodies, both human and astronomical. He has also talked with Jimmy Carter about...
...floor who I think is chewing tobacco." Lance will just talk with the misguided fellow this time, but if the chewing persists he could face expulsion. By modern campus standards, it is a quaint worry, but Illinois' Wheaton College is unabashed in preserving a Garden of Eden moralism that has long since vanished from most campuses. Wheaton ground rules: no cheating, no racial prejudice, no tobacco, no alcohol, no drugs, no gambling-and no social dancing either. Students must sign a "pledge" card on the rules. Bible classes are mandatory, as is weekday worship, with assigned seats so monitors...
...spend a lifetime attempting to discover facts about Roman life that any illiterate serving girl in Cicero's time knew well. History was dank with error, irrationality and the poisonous influences of Europe. The New World began afresh. The vast continent of America seemed an immense, wild Eden to be mastered...
...U.S.S.R. is by far the world's largest oil producer (11.9 million bbl. per day, vs. 9.5 million bbl. for Saudi Arabia). Nonetheless, in the view of many Western energy analysts, the Soviet Union will soon run into a petroleum bind even though the country is an Eden of energy riches...
...boys provide this kind of service to school seniors is a long tradition in British public schools. It has been a practice for three centuries at Eton, which counts among its old boys (i.e., alumni) 18 of Britain's Prime Ministers, including William Pitt the Elder and Anthony Eden, and a pride of literary lions, including Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Orwell. In their day, these illustrious personages, like all new boys, were on call to serve tea, run errands, and polish boots of top seniors. Eton was founded in 1440 by Henry VI, but fagging did not begin...