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...publicizing the names of the most requested Houses, the new system will prevent the selection process from deteriorating into a popularity contest. Eventually, deprived of the statistical props which made myth seem like reality, the stereotypes of some Houses as "bad" and others as good will fade...
...greater question, of course, was what Soviet science learned from the two probes. Very little is known about Venus. Second only to Mercury in nearness to the sun, its bright reflection makes it the last star to fade at dawn, the first to appear at dusk. In size, it just about equals Earth, and like Earth, it possesses an atmosphere. For years, scientists have speculated that life might exist on Venus. But the U.S.'s Mariner II, passing within 21,600 miles of the planet in 1962, radioed back data indicating that Venus' surface was dry, dead...
...distortions of objects and other people, some of the interviewed said they would often look down at their hand, while on LSD, and see an ugly, clumsy mass which didn't seem to belong to them. Other students said that LSD actually wiped out their identity until they could fade into a knot on the wall and watch humanity pass, performing its insignificant tasks. "LSD," one student said, "is an excuse to sit back and let your imagination go berserk...
They will choose their government and the opportunity for a decent, finer life for the humblest of citizens, and they will reject the Communist system of terror and torture, extortion and fear. And when that choice is finally made, then the Viet Cong will wither and fade away...
...with the dazzling future, the threat of war, the prospect of supergovernment. Today's "New Left" predicts the need for political movements to break up big organization. But the skeptics are plainly in the minority. Some futurists, like Buckminster Fuller, believe that amid general plenty, politics will simply fade away. Others predict that an increasingly homogenized world culture-it has been called "the culture bomb"-will increase international amity, although Rand's experts rate the probability of major war before the end of the century...