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While the educators reorganize their methods, the fundamental goals of the process-truth, knowledge, the understanding of the world-remain somewhere just beyond the horizon. It was said of Goethe, after his death in 1832, that he was the last man to know everything worth knowing. Today's cliche is that 90% of all scientists in the history of the world are alive now. Yet their knowledge has become hopelessly fragmented; the specialist in recombinant DNA feels no more obligation to understand laser surgery than to hear the latest composition by Pierre Boulez...
...students and College officials theorize that the principal reasons for student government's foibles are inherent and may not change abruptly. Another reason why packed council meetings and heated contests for seats might not be immediately on the horizon is the dazzling success of other extracurricular organizations on campus and the healthy leadership being asserted in the activities...
...jingling of all that television money had a Utopian ring a couple of months ago, but there has not been a sweet sound heard around football since. To complete the N.F.L.'s funk, there is even another pro league, a spring league, mustering on the horizon. What does a football fan have to look forward to? On Aug. 29 the Los Angeles Raiders might debut in the Los Angeles Coliseum. On Sept. 12 the 1982 season might begin. On Aug. 30 Mike Strachan, the Saints Most Valuable Player of 1975, will stand trial on a cocaine-trafficking charge...
...turrets pull goggles down over their eyes to keep out the clouds of dust. Like umbrellas opening, tents acquire taut shapes; in their midst, a white flag with a red crescent, the symbol of a hospital, is raised. Binoculars to his eyes, a brigadier looks out toward the horizon, where he hears bursts of artillery. His or theirs? "Ours," he replies, pointing in the direction of the enemy lines. "They are getting ready to attack again. You can smell battle...
...placed on hold a plan to put a remote radar-mapping satellite in orbit around Venus, and has delayed until at least 1986 a complex scheme to station a permanent unmanned weather observatory high above the brightly colored clouds of Jupiter. The only mission on J.P.L.'s immediate horizon is an astronomical satellite. To be launched this December, it will look for, among other things, stars in the process of birth...