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...optimistic, progress-obsessed U.S., the fin de siecle had a different tone and temper. The new century seemed to be the new frontier, and predictions about what it would bring were rampant. Many were accurate, from airplanes to television to freeways to disposable bottles. There were some howlers as well, including the forecast that autos would make streets as quiet as country lanes, that there would be no trees left in America by 1920, and that by the end of the 20th century, blacks would constitute about two-thirds of the U.S. population...
...risks involved in breaking our 200 years of silence on the subject of class. For the first century or so, the whole concept of class was derided as something foreign and decadent, along the same lines as male cologne, and inappropriate to a nation with an open frontier. Mention of the word could get you strung up or shunned by the politically correct. Later, in the 1950s, use of the word class joined vegetarianism and folk dancing as one of many telltale signs of communist leanings. Hence Senator Philip Gramm's recent denunciation of the Democrats as latter-day communists...
Panjwin and Qala Diza, villages on the Iranian frontier, are smuggling centers where a vibrant and imaginative black market has sprung up. Though the area is under heavy snow, fast-buck gangs transport tools, machinery, even construction equipment to sell in Iran, returning with food and spare parts for cars and trucks. Almost all the eggs in Kurdistan come from Iran, painstakingly brought in by foot...
Paul C. Martin '52, dean of the division of applied sciences, said Kung's arrival signifies Harvard's commitment to remaining at the frontier of high-technology research and development in the United States...
...Chemistry} 20/30 sequence is experimental. We are teaching advanced stereochemistry and frontier molecular orbital theory," he says. "We have a seen a nice increase in course enrollment over the last half dozen years...