Word: punctualness
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Minutes later the hidden agents?there were 40 in all?got the word over their short-wave radios: "Suspects are proceeding down Spruce Street, headed for Gold." In the third-floor observation post, one agent cracked to TIME Correspondent James Willwerth, "The Chinese are very punctual." So they were?right on time for the most important narcotics bust this summer...
...answer is in the stars, the psyche or the cold eye of reason. In eight cases out of ten, asserts Astrologist Linda Goodman (Sun Signs), people who were born under Aries, Gemini, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius and Pisces will be late most of the time. A Leo will be punctual and tardy in equal measure. "No one," she says, "tells the lion what...
Israeli Consul General Ephraim Elrom, 58, a man of habit, was late for lunch. Disturbed, his wife Else phoned his Istanbul office. "Something's wrong," she said. "Ephraim is always so punctual...
Education, more than anything, is training for the industrial system: the same traits which make you a successful student make for your economic success: accepting discipline (e. g. being punctual), subordinancy, cognitive over affective thinking (emotions and full personal involvement are systematically excluded), and motivation for external rewards (e. g. grades, honors) rather than for the intrinsic qualities of the activity itself. None of these values make for personal fulfillment; none of these values challenge the basic precepts of our society: education conceived exclusively as work merely perpetuates the production of what Erich From calls the "eternal suckling"-people sapped...
Pollution is currently Tokyo's most heatedly debated problem, but it is only one of many. Despite a rapidly expanding and incredibly punctual communications network, subways and trains are packed at 250% to 300% of capacity during rush hours. Several of the city's wards are sinking below sea level at an alarming rate because industrial plants have drawn off so much water from underground streams. As if all this were not enough, geologists have warned that Tokyo is just about ripe for another major earthquake-and that at least 3,000,000 would die if it were...