Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People with a particular talent -- especially a visual talent -- are seldom the best theorists of what they do. Georges Seurat, for instance, was tiresome on pointillism. So perhaps Richard Saul Wurman, a graphic designer who creates the delightfully unorthodox Access guides to cities, should have left it to someone else to explain how people can organize the overflow of data that saturates contemporary life. Information Anxiety is an intermittently diverting self-help guide, Megatrends crossed with What Color Is Your Parachute? But it is more a collage than a book -- with digressive marginalia, diagrams, stray factoids and snatches of autobiography...
...impact of the ruling could take years to determine. Left in question was whether the copyrights, though now known to be legal, can serve as effective protection...
...origin of pulsars, those superdense, fast-spinning celestial objects that appear to blink on and off as % often as every millisecond. Now the mystery seems to be solved. Last week an international team of astronomers announced that they had detected a pulsar emerging from the murky dust clouds left over from Supernova 1987A, a giant star that exploded about 170,000 light-years from earth and was first seen two years...
Police confiscated about 1.3 tons of cocaine in base and finished form. But what left law-enforcement officials gloating was the seizure of unprecedented quantities of chemicals used in the manufacture of cocaine. The cache included 417,095 gal. of ether acetone and methyl ethyl ketone, and 95 tons of potassium permanganate -- enough chemicals to make 104 tons of cocaine, a third of the estimated annual cocaine output of Colombia, Bolivia and Peru combined...
...cultivated a new image, different from the radical ideologue of the '70s who alarmed the private business sector, alienated Washington and scared away American tourists. His trademark open-necked safari suit has been replaced by a sober, dark blue business suit. Stressing pragmatism over idealism, he has purged the left-wing fringe of the PNP, toned down his relationship with Fidel Castro and reassured jittery business leaders with talk of continued economic stability and the need for private investment. "I think there are two types of people," he said, "those who won't learn and those who try to learn...