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...agenda for the next millennium should be to bring earth's population growth to a standstill and to reduce the gap between rich and poor. The rich may have to get poorer. If humanity accomplishes its own survival, along with that of a few other big animals and the life in the sea, it will do well. As to entertainment and sports, I would be content with less of both...
...fewer of & them. Even the need for oil, now the most vital of interests in the West, will fall from the strategic agenda as it is replaced by solar power and controlled nuclear fusion. The end of the petroleum age will make the Arab states of the Middle East poorer and less stable but of declining interest to the West. The Islamic world, powerfully resistant to modernization, will tend to isolate itself...
Overworking, underachieving, the creators of"The Last of the Mohicans" have crafted a big,loud, gaudy two hours of nothing. You come out ofthe theater $6.75 poorer. The sky seems low anddim, the people humble, the traffic quiet.Hollywood magic. I won't say that James FenimoreCooper would be offended by what's been done tohis novel; for all I know, he would have liked it.Cooper had lousy taste
...poorer the kids are, the more pressures they have to make a vocational living," said Rosenstock, noting that children tend to follow the income and educational paths of their parents...
Harvard's newest dean must jump into the University-wide academic planning process, now nearly a year old. He must cope with the financial pressures of one of Harvard's poorer schools. And he must take the reins of a faculty used to some degree of autonomy...