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...more than 25 years, Novelist Donald Newlove would not separate his need to write from his need to drink. He put himself in excellent company. Literary history is strewn with ego-alchemists who believed that they could turn alcohol and ink into art. But the marathon effort of a novel requires a clear head for architecture, and wine, as Dr. Johnson put it, "makes a man mistake words for thoughts...
...turn those paper profits into real revenue, biologists with the prerequisite gene-manipulating skills are being recruited at a furious pace. Young scientists, the ink barely dry on their Ph.D.s, are being offered $30,000 a year, plus a little stock. Senior researchers are getting large chunks of the new companies. Others are fattening their relatively modest academic salaries by serving as part-time consultants to the new companies at fees of $1,000 or more...
Together the Times, the Sunday Times and three supplements (Literary, Educational and Higher Education) have lost some $150 million since 1967, $32 million in 1980 alone. Much of that red ink was caused by the Times Newspapers print unions, which are notorious for featherbedding and work disruptions; their unruly behavior and opposition to laborsaving new technology finally drove out the last owner, the Toronto-based Thomson Organization. Murdoch, who also owns the London Sun (circ. 3.7 million), News of the World (circ. 4.2 million) and New York Post (circ. 640,000), picked up the five Times publications at the bargain...
...COLOR OF THE INK on the book jacket says it all. It shrieks; The Testing Trap: How it can make or break your career and your children's futures, and, in case the message isn't clear enough, the word "break" is printed...
When several people doused him with ink and tried to take his sign away a small fight broke out and police jumped in to arrest everyone involved, including the Polish freedom fighter. "The problem is that if they want to protest, they have to be prepared to let other people join them," one policeman said after the scuffle was broken up and the picket line reformed...