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...research contends that scientific method and reportable results are the goal of the research. But a second element of the defense claims that experience is a legitimate goal of inquiry, and that psilocybin should be used in order to heighten perception so that the experimenters may gain new insight into personality by perceiving behavior more clearly white under influence of these drugs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Guide to Psilocybin | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...realization became clear to Wilbur one day while he was idly twisting a long inner-tube box. A historian would later equate the importance of this incident with Newton's observation of a falling apple. Biographer Howard is more restrained and more engaging when he attributes the insight to a "genius for the tactile" born of long experience handling wood, cloth and metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heads In Air, Feet on Ground WILBUR AND ORVILLE | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

Today visitors to Wal-Mart's plain, red brick offices in Bentonville soon get an insight into how Walton manages to offer such low prices. The company's frugal quarters are outfitted like a bus station, complete with plastic seats. The chairman's office, covered in bargain-basement paneling, is appointed mostly with strewn-about books and computer printouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make That Sale, Mr. Sam Wal-Mart's | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...vast resources of this protean figure. Soon two young dancers, David Parsons and Douglas Wright, will snip their puppet strings and try to become the Paul Taylors of the '90s. They had better read this book, not only for a preview of the pitfalls ahead, but also for an insight into the nonartistic qualities that just might come in handy: guts, humor and, above all, stamina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Among Marvelous Ants and Bees PRIVATE DOMAIN | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...Paris as bureau chief before coming to New York as a writer in 1981. He became senior editor of the World section and, last year, chief of correspondents and an assistant managing editor. Presiding over the much acclaimed 1985 special issue devoted to immigrants, Muller brought the personal insight afforded by his heritage, and he now becomes the second immigrant, after the Vienna-born Grunwald, to lead TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Apr. 27, 1987 | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

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