Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack on RH-827 was yet another indication of the guerrillas' growing strength and further proof that Nkomo seems determined to raise as much havoc as he can before the spring election. Late in January, Rhodesia's white minority overwhelmingly approved a referendum committing them to join 2.8 million black voters at the polls on April 20 to elect a majority-rule government that Smith hopes will gain international recognition as legitimate...
...through a new Open Door to China trade. Some other challenges: preparing reams of technical material for Chinese bureaucrats who will want to debate every minute specification of a widget; staying reasonably sober through Peking banquets that may include as many as ten bottoms-up toasts drunk in 110-proof mao tais; determining just how big the China market really is in the first place...
...complex. In Bloch's reworking of that Freudian gospel, the kids are attracted to a parent, not out of the incestuous impulses postulated by Freud, but as a sexual strategy to gain control over a threatening parent. One needs only to return to the original Greek myth for proof of her infanticide theory, says Bloch. Unfortunately, she adds, the master apparently missed the key point: the young Oedipus himself narrowly escaped death at the hands of his father...
...were wrong, based on data." Science is provisional; it progresses from one hypothesis to another, always testing, rejecting the ideas that do not work, that are contradicted by new evidence. "Faith," said St. Augustine, "is to believe, on the word of God, what we do not see." Faith defies proof; science demands it. If new information should require modification of the Big Bang theory, that modification could be accomplished without the entire temple of knowledge collapsing. Observes Harvard University Historian-Astronomer Owen Gingerich: "Genesis is not a book of science. It is accidental if some things agree in detail...
...course, it was true--Rosovsky's own adventures, playing midwife to a Faculty that thrashed and groaned like an elephant for three years before giving birth to a mouse called the Core Curriculum, are proof enough of that. Harvard, so they tell us, will last forever, and it will not change--or change easily--because the institutional inertia of 340-plus years of imagined immortality will not permit that. And so the students who cry out to change Harvard actually find themselves faced with a much more difficult problem: making sure that Harvard does not change them. The trick becomes...