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What makes MacCready a font of creativity? Nobel laureate physicist Murray Gell-Mann, a Pasadena neighbor and close friend, attributes that quality to MacCready's outlook: "He approaches nature and daily life with an innocent sense of wonder. He approaches problems and learning about new things in the ! same way, without strongly held, preconceived notions. When he sees something in daily life, when he sees something in nature, he takes a fresh view...
...When one wanted to arrive overnight at the incomparable, the fabulous, the like-nothing-else-in-the-world, where was it one went?" wrote Thomas Mann. "Why obviously . . . Venice." Italy's floating city, fragile as colored glass, has long been loved too well. Each year 2.3 million boisterous and devoted suitors importune this village of 79,000, clogging its narrow walkways, cluttering its wide canals, disturbing its hushed churches and driving its harried residents to distraction. Last summer when 200,000 fans camped in the Piazza San Marco for a Pink Floyd concert, it took the Italian army three days...
British sociology is not without merit. To name even a few scholars makes the point: Ronald Dore (at Harvard recently), John Goldthrope and Anthony Giddens (consistently sought, I have been informed, by the sociologists here), Ernest Gellner (this year's Tanner lecturer at Harvard), Michael Mann and Duncan Gallie (recent winners of America's most prestigous sociology prize...
...inflicted on other nations in the name of Germany. We seek unification in the context of integration in the European Community, East-West partnership for stability, the building of a common European home and the creation of a peaceful order throughout Europe." Genscher joined with Shevardnadze in quoting Thomas Mann: "We seek a European Germany, not a German Europe...
...World Health Organization dispatched a public health team to Rumania to determine the scope of the epidemic. If infection is limited mainly to the children, a large supply of sterile needles and blood-testing kits could halt the spread almost immediately, said Dr. Jonathan Mann, head of WHO's Global Program on AIDS. But Mann is concerned that the new mobility of Eastern Europe's populations could lead to faster dissemination of the virus. Citing reports of prostitution in Rumania and heroin use in Poland, Mann called Eastern Europe "the new frontier for the AIDS epidemic...