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...Americans losing ground to countries like China, South Korea and India in science and technology [Feb. 13]? Duh! We have a scientifically illiterate President, megachurches that insist that creation is 6,000 years old and an anti-intellectual climate that casts anyone of intelligence as a suspected terrorist. Falling behind in science? We are falling behind in intelligence...
...didn't know what they had got. With big robberies, that's more common than you might suppose. In a number of the most famous British heists--notably the Brinks Mat bullion raid at Heathrow airport in 1983, when thieves took gold worth $45 million--police and underworld lore insist that the gangs had no idea of the value of their haul. For a crook, an unexpectedly large payday can be as much a curse as a blessing. You have to do something with the stuff you've stolen, and if you've stolen a lot of it, your problems...
Despite the fact that condoms are already available in several parts of the Yard, in upperclass houses, and at University Health Services (UHS)—not to mention at CVS—proponents of this plan insist that it is necessary to supply condoms in freshman dorms for that “heat-of-the-moment” lay in the hay. We disagree with this view that sex, especially between 17- and 18-year-olds who barely know each other and may be having their first sexual experience, should be the result of a spontaneous, inebriated decision...
...ideas” president, who took Harvard’s mission as a place of discovery and teaching seriously: he sought bold changes to the core (literally) of the Harvard education and he refused to mouth the fashionable nostrums that Harvard’s lazier minds insist on. Yes, he said, the University has an obligation to serve and love the country. Yes, science may lead us to discoveries that, at least in some areas, complicate our ideas of equality...
...race skiing out of the area toward the mobile home he lives in on the winter circuit. He has also been seen at nightspots in Sestriere, even bussing the requisite Playboy Playmate, a type that shows up at the Olympics just like those annoying mascots. Miller's coaches insist that he's not skiing badly, just having bad luck. "He's been engaged and active," says head coach Phil McNichol. "He's skiing as strong and fast through intervals in training as any other skier." Miller has just two more chances to prove...