Word: pense
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Your article reflects optimism about a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars by 2010 [SCIENCE, July 29]. This is commendable and desirable, but do not hold your breath waiting for it to materialize. One of the major reasons for my pessimism is that unlike the Soviet leadership, the U.S...
In your article "New but Not Necessarily Improved" [ESSAY, July 22], you assert that "ballpoint pens are better than fountain pens, and cheaper too." Do you not realize that a man is his handwriting, and his handwriting is his pen? The fountain pen is beaux arts, bold strokes, bound leather...
Johnson pens these portraits in clean, spare prose, allowing the poignant stories to shine. One has the sense of being transported bodily to China; Johnson’s evocative descriptions of various Chinese locales are reminiscent of such fiction writers as Ha Jin and Yu Hua.
Still, even if one is inclined to resist change for the sake of change, one must resist the instinct to oppose all change. Some new things are definite improvements on the old. Pampers are better than diapers. Ballpoint pens are better than fountain pens, and cheaper too. LP records are...
Pigs have not escaped the horrors of industrial farming, either. Piglets have their ears notched, their tails cut off, their teeth clipped, and are routinely castrated—all without painkillers. They are then fattened up in concrete holding pens inside factory farm walls where their boredom causes fighting and...