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...Britannica, of which he is editorial board chairman. He was a founder of Britannica's 54- volume Great Books of the Western World, and personally wrote every one of the 5,000- to 10,000-word essays defining the 102 Great Ideas that constitute the heart of a prodigious index to the Great Books. In addition, he started and still directs the Institute for Philosophical Research, which is devoted to publishing learned tracts. He passionately pushes his Paideia program, an experimental educational system that is imbuing selected elementary and high schools in Atlanta, Oakland and Chicago with a rigorous curriculum...
...World or the Grand Canyon that they had planned for this summer. Reason: the price of gasoline is suddenly spurting again. The Government reported last week that the cost of motor fuel rose 3.6% in March. That was the main reason for the .5% jump in the Consumer Price Index, its sharpest monthly increase since January 1984. In another report, the Oil and Gas Journal found that the average price of gasoline in the U.S. climbed 3 cents per gal. in March, to $1.15, which was 10 cents higher than it had been a year earlier...
...overall increase is greater than the roughly 4 percent rise of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a factor Gerrity attributed to the fact that "some of the costs increase at rates faster than inflation," including maintenance and energy...
Whether the subject is the beefiest burger or the biggest corporation, Americans have a penchant for making lists of the best and the worst, then arguing about the results. Since 1939, when Psychologist E.L. Thorndike devised a "goodness index" to rate U.S. cities, no rankings have inspired more disagreement than those about home sweet home. The latest edition of Rand McNally's Places Rated Almanac can only add to the controversy. According to the 449-page paperback released last week, the best all-round metropolitan area in which to live in the U.S. is Pittsburgh. The worst: Yuba City, Calif...
...year is already off to a strong start. The Commerce Department said last week that the index of leading economic indicators, which tries to foretell future growth, climbed 1.7% in January, its sharpest advance in 18 months. That report electrified the stock market, where investors went on a buying binge. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped nearly 26 points during the day, to 1309.96, before falling back to a record close of 1299.36, which topped the peak...