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...teaching required for each. The first consists of the acquisition of fundamental knowledge: history, literature, languages, mathematics, science and the fine arts. This material should be instilled didactically, through lectures and the like. The second column develops the basic intellectual skills of reading, writing, mathematical computation and scientific investigation: know-how as opposed to know-what. These should be taught just as physical or athletic skills are taught, through practice and coaching. The third and most innovative column refers to the enlargement of understanding: the aesthetic appreciation of works of art and the ability to think critically about ideas...
...race will also be the most grueling test of nautical know-how imaginable. There will be four legs with a week's rest required at the end of each. The solo sailors must first cross the Atlantic to Cape Town, South Africa. From there, the small boats must follow a course that will take them over the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean and on to Sydney, Australia. The third leg of the journey spans the South Pacific from Sydney to Cape Horn and then to Rio de Janeiro, while the fourth will bring those skillful and fortunate enough...
Today, however, many companies and countries pursue corporate secrets like sharks in a frenzy at feeding time. As Japan, the Soviet Union and Western countries vie with ever increasing intensity for industrial power, the pressure to save years of research time and expense by stealing know-how has created an industrial espionage epidemic. In West Germany, where intrigue has been a way of life since the onset of the cold war, last year for the first time there were more known cases of business spying than of political espionage. In the U.S., thefts of secrets ranging from technological breakthroughs...
...1960s but even well-educated professionals, including lawyers and stockbrokers, as well as many laid-off workers or financially squeezed farmers. Few, though, are trying-to-make-ends-meet amateurs in the underground trade. Says a Kansas police official: "Most growers around here have a lot of pride, know-how and a college degree in agriculture." Not many demonstrate excessive guilt about their lawbreaking. Says an agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration: "People don't perceive growing marijuana as being really wrong, even though it's illegal...
...Soviet space arsenal. That would include their Salyut 7 space station, which was pointedly visited by three cosmonauts, one of them a Frenchman, while Columbia circled the earth several hundred miles below it. As Reagan noted, the space shuttle shows the world that "Americans still have the know-how and Americans still have the true grit that conquered a savage wilderness." Yet the space agency, which has planned 98 more shuttle flights through 1989, realizes that the program faces a new round of challenges...