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...relations with old business associates despite the sensitivity of his position in the White House. But at least the President's embattled National Security Adviser cannot be accused of giving up without a fight. After his surprise announcement that he was taking an "administrative leave" (with pay), the hitherto reticent Allen faced any and all questions of reporters in an extraordinary media blitz (see PRESS...
...bottle bill. King could have helped all of Massachusetts. As any visitor to Harvard Square will tell you, bottles and cans greatly contribute to urban litter. And in rural areas, too, unwelcome bottles put a blight on nature and upset ecology. The bill would not only prevent many a hitherto callous bottle-tosser from strewing the streets with refuse, it would also give passersby an incentive to pick up the discarded containers. And, as the economists would say, the resulting cleanliness represents an externality--a cost or benefit to society not reflected in the market price. By charging a nickel...
Gossip has always been one of the evil pleasures. It is unworthy, nosy, hypocritical and moralistic, a sort of participatory nastiness. But does it play a heroic moral role hitherto unnoticed? Is gossip merely a swamp that breeds mosquitoes and disease? ("Each man walks with his head in a cloud of poisonous flies," wrote Tennyson.) Or does it have higher functions in the ecosystem...
...interest. In New York City last week, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir attacked the Saudis as a "major obstacle" to peace. Said he: "Saudi extremism against the peace process stems from a fanatic hatred of Jews and Israel." His diatribe may reflect worries in Jerusalem that the Administration's hitherto benign attitude toward Israel is changing for the worse. TIME has learned that in two recent cables to his government, Israel's Ambassador to Washington, Ephraim Evron, expressed concern that a proposed memorandum on U.S.-Israeli strategic cooperation, due to be signed next month, omits a plan to store...
...left, as was once thought, proved clearly superior in some respects, including the capacity for intuitive thinking, interpreting auditory impressions and comprehending spatial relationships. Said the Nobel Committee of Sperry's achievements: "He has provided us with an insight into the inner world of the brain which hitherto had been almost completely hidden from...