Word: musts
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Although a state planning board recently gave its sanction to the project, the state's office of environmental affairs must still review a draft of an environmental impact report (EIR). And a source in that office says that the office, which will issue its recommendations this week, may ask for the EIR to be rewritten from scratch...
Once the office of environmental affairs is satisfied, the state secretary of administration and finance must still hold his own public hearings and issue a final decision. Most observers say that ground-breaking ceremonies for the complex, designed by the Cambridge Kennedy Square Associaties, are at least a year away...
...doubt Connally will continue his polemic on the Israel-oil connection. Connally must be praying for a cold winter so he can remind us how warm we would be with a fresh supply of Arab oil in our furnaces. But resting our hopes for an energy solution on OPEC is illusory and will invite further blackmail from the cartel. The U.S. should reaffirm its commitment to Israel and ignore Connally's easy answer...
...there lessons to be learned from the life and ways of the quintessential Yankee tinkerer that could help revive the flickering spirit of U.S. invention? Any understanding of the great inventor must begin by stripping away myths. Edison, who had a lust for glory and a constitutional inability to refrain from embellishing a good story, saw to it that that would be no easy job; he perpetrated an incredible number of myths about himself. He often boasted that he had never attended school for a single day. Untrue. He had at least three years of formal education as a child...
What then was the secret of Edison's inventiveness? The core of it must remain as elusive as the mystery of why Rembrandt handled chiaroscuro so masterfully; it was an inborn gift, honed by practice but unteachable. Nobel-prizewinning Physicist Isidor I. Rabi, for one, maintains that Edison could no more have stopped himself from inventing than a born punster can refrain from playing word games. Robert Conot, author of a 1979 biography of Edison, A Streak of Luck, observes that Edison's mind "multiplied devices from a single idea like a dividing amoeba and then compartmentalized...