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...such an esoteric term as "cept" to describe "the smallest convenient unit of knowledge" [March 26]. In the "old days" at Brown University we mundanely called these forms of knowledge "fifty-pointers." While it's true that we didn't have anything as sophisticated as "multi" or "kilo" fifty-pointers, they did work...
...knowledge" definition. He reports, after much research, that Princeton courses average, per lecture, 8.8 cepts in philosophy, 5.2 in American history, 4.6 in literature, a mere 1.5 in art. A student may emerge from a course with as many as 250 cepts in his notebook. Hopefully, a few rare "kilo-cepts" and "multicepts"-cepts so basic they can be applied in many courses and to almost any historical period-may turn up among them, although Tenner has been able to identify only 17 kilocepts during his four years at Princeton. Examples: "A determinist creed induces not fatalism, but the will...
Gbenye and his rebel ministers had fled Stanleyville, and with them went more than 1,500 Ibs. of gold (valued at nearly $800,000) from the Kilo-Moto Mines and more than $6,000,000 from the vaults of the Banque du Congo. But many Simbas had stayed behind sniping at anyone who moved, and the mopping up was bloody...
...Prices still rise practically every day," says one Rio householder, noting that salt went from 90 to 128 cruzeiros a kilo in August alone. Some Brazilians hold two and sometimes three jobs to make ends meet. Hardly anyone has money to save. Every extra cruzeiro is socked into time payments for autos, refrigerators, TV sets and other nonperishable inflation hedges that hold their value...
...United States maintains that while atmospheric and oceanic tests can be detected from outside the Soviet orders, underground tests with a yield below five kilo-tons could be concealed. The U.S. government considers seven inspections yearly necessary to ensure that such clandestine tests are not made, but in recent years advances in seismological detection have made the U.S. insistence on on-site inspection appear unwarranted. According to the Washington Post...