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...have been uninspiring, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Calvin Klein not withstanding, but they did spawn two social phenomena likely to ripple through the 1980's and beyond. The first is a spreading fear that the human race has brought on its imminent destruction--thanks to (pick one) environmental disruption, the baseball strike, nuclear holocaust, or over-population. Doomsayers include the gloomy Limits to Growth study (on population), former President Jimmy Carter (on energy) and futurologist Herbert W. Armstrong, who once said 'all the prophesies have been fulfilled.' They have called for varying degrees of repentance and reform, to delay...
Myriad evils--officers bent on promotion, industrialists bent on profit, generals bent on status, and politicians bent on re-election--all do their part to plague the American military. Fallows contends. He lays the bulk of the blame for weakness, though, on two phenomena: The Pentagon's affection for unbelievably expensive and ludicrously ineffective high-tech weaponry, and the manpower problems that have developed since the draft was halted...
...face it: Sex is one of the fundamental phenomena in biology and no introductory course is going to eliminate reference to it. Perhaps professors should be more careful in what they say, but students should not lose their sense of humor. If references to erections or vaginal mucosal membranes bother you, maybe you ought to consider a different course of study...
Some quasars have even larger red shifts and perhaps are older and more distant. But quasars, which resemble stars in some ways and in some ways do not, are still so puzzling that astronomers prefer to turn to more familiar phenomena, like galaxies, in their explorations of the universe's evolution. The newly discovered galaxies, in fact, should be especially good time machines. Their light is much less bright than might be expected from a young galaxy. Astronomers speculate that the newfound galaxies may already have been 6 billion years old when the light left them, and thus could...
Government claims that private corporations can undertake high level research at a lower cost than universities are misleading, Jones added, saying. "The private sector is not the bad guy: it just does not have the patience to search for novel new phenomena, and it does not undertake the responsibility of training the next generation of thinkers...