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...LOOK NOW. Guilt and psychic phenomena haunt a waking nightmare, wonderfully directed by Nicolas Roeg and acted by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie...
While Sirica scowled at Buzhardt and obviously struggled to conceal his irritation, the President's lawyer claimed that "the phenomena occurs during the course of the conversation-that is, not at the beginning or end"-between Nixon and his former chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, on July 20, 1972. This was just three days after five men were arrested during the wiretap-burglary of Democratic National Committee headquarters. It was also after Haldeman and another former aide, John Ehrlichman, had been briefed on the arrests by then Presidential Counsel John Dean...
...THEN COHEN does not pay attention to a number of things he ought to. His is largely a problem of perspective. Students in institutions are probably not the best people to write serious studies of the institutions as sociological phenomena. Too caught up with what they themselves do, they suffer from a tendency to turn themselves and their friends into case studies, into role models, or even into interesting people, which they are not. The Gospel According to The Harvard Business School, dealing with the Harvard Business School from September 1968 to June 1970 is really nothing more than...
Rampaging floods in India and Pakistan. A devastating drought in Africa. The disappearance of fish off the coast of Peru. These recent, widely reported phenomena all have something in common. Though they were triggered by nature, their magnitude was increased disastrously by man's trying to expand his food production without considering the ecological side effects...
...present-an idea totally at odds with the behavior of electricity at ordinary temperature; and 2) that if a voltage is applied across layers of superconductors and insulators, it will produce an ultrahigh-frequency alternating current. Devices based on the Josephson effects have already been used to measure natural phenomena like magnetic fields with unprecedented precision. In the future they may be the key elements in extremely high-speed supercooled computers (TIME, March...