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Philip A. Kuhn, professor of History and of East Asian Civilizations and Languages, sees physical endeavor as an alternative to total decay." Unlike many of his colleagues, though, he is unwilling to exercise in a boring or repetitive manner. He prefers to go cross-country sking in New Hampshire's White Mountains, where he owns a cabin. "Anybody who lives in New England and doesn't get out to the country really is missing a great deal. The thrill of gliding through the forest on noiseless skis is hard to beat...
...expense of pure research. When the plans for the shuttle were first unveiled, a half-dozen teams of scientists at the joint Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysics center in Cambridge received the thumbs-up to numerous projects designed for the shuttle. That number has dropped since then, with only one endeavor--an infra-red telescope--having a reservation for a trip in the near future and still receiving full NASA backing. Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian center are now anxiously awaiting the green-light on projects for now tabled...
...simplistic, though natural, to be skeptical about the motives of folks like Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III in an endeavor like yesterday's conference. Epps and his peers on other campuses conveniently and unavoidably serve as college bad guys, the ones seen engineering "crackdowns" and laying down the law. Especially at big schools, deans are local and often forbidding public figures...
Hence the decision to let the Soviets send Ilyichev back to the negotiating table. Hence also Premier Zhao Ziyang's recent call for a "common endeavor to combat the superpowers' hegemonism," a deliberate use of the plural that lumped the U.S. together with the Soviet Union as a threat against "peace-loving and justice-upholding countries and peoples...
Radiating from Spaceship Earth are pavilions that explore other areas of technological endeavor. The World of Motion (sponsor: General Motors), nested within a wheel-shaped building, is a mostly light-hearted show with 24 Audio-Animatronic scenes depicting such momentous occasions as the invention of the wheel and the first traffic jam. The Universe of Energy (sponsored by Exxon) is a serious but compelling presentation whose three-acre roof with a partial photovoltaic surface is probably the largest privately built solar-energy collector in the world. Inside, life-size models of dinosaurs fight to the death; there is even...