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...years, the reporting and commentary on international and British politics in the London Economist has been lucid, thoughtful, urbane and wryly detached. That spirit was hardly reflected on the cover, which, as with most British weeklies, merely offered some text and a partial table of contents. Nowadays the covers rank among the wittiest anywhere...
...Lessons of History, the Durants do not set themselves up as oracles. On the contrary, they are disarmingly honest in admitting that all historians operate with partial knowledge, and that any belief that they can examine a past epoch with total perspective is largely an optical illusion. "Most history is guessing," they confess, "and the rest is prejudice." Still, in their long tour through history, the Durants have reached some conclusions. A major one is that man, and not his environment, makes civilization. Over and over again, they submit, man has proved his capacity to make a culture when...
...only headache bothering the administrators of the Title I program. No satisfactory evaluation of the projects financed by the title has yet been made, James Mauch, USOE director of Title I evaluation admitted recently. The USOE knows that some projects have succeeded in raising students' achievement scores--a partial, but the best available criterion of their educational worth--but any estimate, even a fragmentary one--of the overall impact of the $3 billion in Title I aid has not yet been obtained, Mauch said. He pleaded for more time, noting that Title I has been in existence for only three...
Still, Wong's jungle boot camp has been a partial success. So far, eight "graduates" have not reappeared in months; yet some orangs, like a young female named Joan, seem unable to make up their minds. She mated in the wild but came back to have her baby. Now she wanders in and out of the camp with little Joan clinging to her side, enjoying the best of both worlds...
...President's riot commission. Storefront offices in the slums are not so much police stations as referral stations-each staffed by a cop, a sanitation man and a member of the state employment service-for a whole spectrum of social problems, from health to jobs. Police are given partial credit for keeping St. Louis relatively quiet. Other problems remain unsolved. St. Louis has a rising crime rate and is a major Midwest base for organized crime...