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...point is well taken. The only reason that Libya and Iran have been able to lift prices so much so soon is that, despite an international agreement earlier this year to curb imports, demand for oil continues to grow at a time when Iran's internal problems and lack of technical expertise threaten supply cuts at any moment. In the first eight months of this year, oil imports by Japan, Italy, West Germany and France increased by between...
Paradoxically, America's lack of longstanding intellectual traditions-in fact, its strain of anti-intellectualism-may also have helped the cause of science. The best minds have not been overburdened with required studies that are remote from their interests. Sir George Porter, a British chemist who won a Nobel in 1967, recalls that he had to put up a stiff fight to be allowed to study science instead of Latin or Greek at his grammar school in England. "Very few Americans speak ancient languages," he says.-"But for 150 years there has been a tradition in America of appreciation...
...have a Lysenko lobby in this country-the Clamshell Alliance and others who think science is harmful, who feel guilty about it and try to paralyze it. They think it's more important to distribute jobs among the needy than to do exotic research. There's a lack of the sense of glory of science and its wonders, a feeling that it's linear, not humane, not 'with it.' " To his credit, President Carter, trained as an engineer, now seems to be fighting this trend and pushing for more funding for basic research. But many...
Tiny, gray-eyed, her face deeply seamed with the passing years, Mother Teresa received the news with characteristic lack of fuss in the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Calcutta. She has won an array of international honors, and though this one carried the biggest stipend so far-$190,000-she took it in stride. "Personally, I am unworthy," she said in her first response to the award...
...lack of Faculty commitment to undergraduate education is, as usual, at the center of CUE's troubles. Until the Faculty makes a serious attempt to respect undergraduate needs and to respond constructively to their criticism, CUE will remain one of the many "student-faculty committees," set up more to ease faculty conscience than to give students a meaningful role in setting educational policy...