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Many faculty say that academic isolation andbureaucratic burdens are the lot of Harvard'sjunior faculty, male and female. "Harvard has areputation for burning out their junior faculty,"says one woman who will be reviewed for tenure inthe next year. She says it is hard to distinguishbetween general junior faculty issues...
Growing up, Tracy Gary lived in opulent homes in Manhattan, Bal Harbour, Fla., and on Lake Superior's Madeline Island, traveling among them in the family plane, helicopter and yellow Rolls-Royce. Parties and presents were plentiful, including a Ford Mustang for high school graduation. At 21, Gary received the...
These outlays, combined with other sources of income, have provided many of the elderly with a sense of security that their own parents never enjoyed and that they will not relinquish without a fight. The median income of couples 65 and over in 1986 was about $22,000, which can...
Perhaps it was natural that Japanese artists should return the compliment; anyhow it was inevitable, once the traditional isolation of Japan was broken by the Emperor Meiji's decree, in 1868, that "knowledge shall be sought throughout the world." As J. Thomas Rimer points out in a fascinating catalog essay...
Similar reasoning applies to Mengistu's much criticized policy of "villagization," which coerces peasants to move from their scattered farms into village collectives. "What makes developing countries really backward is their inability to benefit from modern science and technology," Mengistu told TIME in an interview last year. "People live in...