Word: rand
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...Verne and George Orwell were all practicing futurists working under a science-fiction guise. Fittingly, perhaps, modern futurism was born with the atom bomb, in that moment in history when it was suddenly possible to imagine a world without a future. It was Herman Kahn, a graduate of the Rand Institute, the Ur-think tank, who gave the nascent profession credibility with such groundbreaking books as Thinking About the Unthinkable (1962), which used sound scientific principles to predict with great specificity the likely effects of a thermonuclear...
...that would further raise the price of three strikes. A Rand Corp. researcher who determined that California faces an annual increase in prison costs of $5.5 billion under the law also analyzed four social programs and found three of them far more effective in reducing crime. "If you're going to spend a million dollars, you prevent three times as much crime if you put it into parent training than if you put it into building more cells," said Peter Greenwood, the study's director...
...wearing of questionable medals a transgression serious enough to warrant taking one's life? Readers who wrote us about the suicide of Mike Boorda, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations [NATION, May 27], expressed varying views. Rand Knox of San Rafael, California, remembered the recent forced resignations of other high-ranking military officials and suggested Boorda had overreacted. Wrote Knox: "The military makes the trivial important and the important trivial." Retired Army Sergeant Major David L. Pompili of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was saddened by the suicide but pointed out, "If Boorda's citation did not award the V device [for valor...
...Moral Perfectionism, inspired him to study philosophy. This was already a nascent interest: During his first year at Harvard, Ben-Shachar founded the campus Objectivist Club, but by his sophomore year he no longer ran it. Now he doesn't considers himself an Objectivist, noting the irony that Ayn Rand's highly individualist philosophy spawns "blind commitment" from her ideological "followers...
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED. By JEAN-BERT-RAND ARISTIDE, 42, former priest and current President of Haiti; in Port au Prince. Although Aristide refused to name his fiancee, sources close to him identified her as MILDRED TROUILLET, a presidential legal counselor...