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...fossil fuels, does not pollute the atmosphere and is a great form of exercise for this fitness-crazed era. But in the age of high tech, bicycles have long seemed old-fashioned, a classical conveyance stuck with a century-old design: two equal-size wheels, a welded steel frame, manual gear shifting, pedals and a chain. While cars have loaded up with electronic gadgetry, bicycles have watched the wheels of progress roll...
Since Rosovsky left the deanship, he authored called The University: An Owner's Manual, in which he reflects on the state of higher education and spells out some of the strategies he discovered were the key to being a successful administrator...
...other hand, no one has yet proved that Noriega was the coke-sniffing degenerate portrayed by U.S. officials during the invasion. And there are allegations that both the picture of Hitler and the sex manual discovered in his house and office were planted...
...period in history is characterized by an unusually rapid growth of knowledge, and it follows that the proportion of outdated facts and theories will be unusually large. Classics of permanent value are confined almost exclusively to the humanities." (from The University: An Owner's Manual, pp. 102-103.) James A. Davis
...Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, whose new book, The University: An Owner's Manual, described Harvard Yard as an "oasis" in the midst of "ever-changing urban squalor...