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...Rand's experts have written on basic physics, engineering, statistics, economics, sociology and world cultures and religions. They know how peasants in northeastern Thailand make their living--and how the economy there can be developed to fit a more Western mold. They have examined the role of the Catholic church in Latin American society. Their reports include countless mathematical models for efficient allocation of resources. Rand physicists have even stepped back to a cosmic perspective and scanned the whole globe to find "The Exact Solution for the Propagation of Electromagnetic Pulses over a Highly Conducting Spherical Earth...
...only type of writing the corporation doesn't seem to produce is creative writing, but it nonetheless devises classification schemes for creative writing from other sources--one Rand whiz worked out a method for computer indexing of translated mainland Chinese texts...
Military ventures get a similar cost-benefit analysis. A Rand researcher in 1973 suggested that efficiency could be determined by defining military output in terms of "the capability to destroy 1000 tanks in a 90-day Central European war scenario, or the capability to deliver a given amount of bomb tonnage in Southeast Asia." His formulas did not include significant variables representing such factors as a ravaged European countryside or a decimated village in Vietnam...
...RAND REPORTS do influence Washington policymakers. In April of this year a report suggested that physician shortages in rural areas could be partly relieved by linking federal aid to medical students with the requirement that the students later serve in rural areas. Congress passed such a resolution this fall...
...Rand Corporation resembles an eager biology student at his first dissection. It can carefully lay bare the anatomy of its subject but cannot comprehend its motivation. It can describe the details, but misses out on the whole animal...