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Fang and Claw. The Thomas affair is certainly the most shocking to occur within the labyrinth of Foggy Bottom personnel practices, but it is by no means the only one of its kind. Willard Brown, a Class 2 officer, discovered after his selection-out that the State Department had lost all of his personnel records and that consequently his name had not been considered for promotion for several years. Nor are good men being passed over just for clerical errors. The selection process in the department has traditionally been the last word in Darwinistic elitism. McClintock, although a highly regarded...
Packed with ultraviolet and infrared sensors, Mariner will also keep a continual watch on the Martian surface and atmosphere. Thus, for the first time, scientists will be able to observe on a day-to-day basis the mysterious changes that occur on the Red Planet, including the strange seasonal wave of darkening that was once regarded by astronomers as a sign of earthlike vegetation. Equally important, more may be learned about the Martian physical features discovered by earlier Mariners: moonlike craters, the virtual lack of a magnetic field and the extremely low atmospheric pressure (only one one-hundred-fiftieth that...
...essence, the rationale for the new special equipment is that certain mental skills can be acquired only by "imprinting," a special form of rapid learning that generally occurs at certain critical periods soon after birth if it is to occur at all. That is the way newly hatched chicks learn to follow their mothers. But, observes Feinbloom, children are not chickens: they do not learn intellectual skills by imprinting, and if they miss one learning opportunity, they will get another later on. "Do we need any more anxiety than we already have about reaching milestones on time?" he asks rhetorically...
Cobb also said Sargent "shepherded funds inequitably." "Somehow the Dwight Sargent-sponsored events always seemed to occur in the top of the Holyoke Center or at an expensive club. If the Fellows brought up a speaker we had to settle for beer and cheese at the Faculty Club. And we often had to foot the hotel and airline bills for our guests from our own pockets," Cobb said...
...things in Prison occur in private. It is an environment almost without internal secrets. The pressure that was being applied to break George Jackson was well-known within San Quentin and throughout the California penal system. Equally well known was the fact that Jackson had not been broken, and more importantly, that he had not had his capacity to reason and to love destroyed in self-defense...