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Perhaps Reagan believes that in the last six months drug users have reproduced themselves at a rate previously unknown to mankind. If so, he would do well to consult the National Institute on Drug Abuse, an organization that would inform him that the use of almost every major drug has remained steady or has declined in the past two years...
...Such facsimiles, however, are invariably short-lived and harmless.) But these conditions, while obviously a necessary cause of revolution, are not sufficient. If they were, there would be revolution everywhere and always, since, aside from in a few countries in very modern times, poverty is the common condition of mankind...
...University exists to benefit all mankind through teaching and scholarship. It has a duty to pursue solutions to social and scientific problems, to equip and inspire its students to serve society as they serve themselves, and to maintain an intellectual preserve where individuals can challenge any truth or ask any question fearlessly...
...Animals is a work of cross-cultural panache. Serpell writes passionately and well about a subject that seems to have fallen between the cracks of specializations. His overview is sweeping and provocative. To wit: in traditional Western thought, God created humans in his own image and animals to serve mankind. This anthropocentric view dominated religion and philosophy for more than 2,000 years, and still exerts a powerful influence. But so do our animal instincts, the cause of psychological conflict and moral ambivalence...
...find the Titanic, announced last week that he plans to use a submersible next summer to retrieve Titanic relics. "The selling of them I'm not particularly interested in," he says. "I'll probably donate them to different museums or put them on display around the country for mankind to view and remember the tragic events that occurred on that night...