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...consider the plaza first: the former slope around Lamont represents a grade change of about nine feet. Hazardous in icy weather, the slope will now be replaced by two sets of stairs--one at the lower level entrance to Lamont, and one near the entrance to the Pusey Library (parallel to Widener's main entry). Unlike the grand stairway of Widener or the less monumental stairways of University Hall, the new stairs do not function as the specific entrance to a specific place, but rather as an integral element of the Yard's pedestrian paths...
...under the Johnson Administration, it often seemed as if the best was barely good enough. Policies were regularly oversold. Part of the reason, notes Lance Liebman, assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School, lay in the "grandiloquent personality" of the President. His hubris found a parallel in the "national mood among the educated, professional, managerial classes," writes Liebman. They were persuaded that "technology had infinite capacity to produce the good life, at low cost...
...differ considerably from one individual to another. Thus they reject the notion of some science-fiction writers that memory molecules-and thereby memories-may one day be transferred from one brain to another. "The immune response is a learned reaction," says Rockefeller University's Edelman, again citing the parallel between memory and immunology. "There is no Marcel Proust for immunology. I doubt that there's one for the neurosciences...
They said that change towards a free education was inseparable from political realities. They said: "We consider the primary precondition for the solution of the people's problems the immediate end to the tyrannical regime of the junta, and the parallel establishment of popular sovereignty...
...will not say when Teddy will be fitted with an artificial leg. But the youngster is not waiting that long to learn how to get around. With the toughness characteristic of his clan, he reported to the hospital's therapy unit last week, and with the aid of parallel bars and a temporary peg leg, began learning to walk again...