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...commission voted to take the matter under advisement and is expected to render a decision today
Anyone who thinks electronic data storage is going to render print obsolete in the near future should consider Grove's Dictionary of Art, a 5-ft.-long shelf of 34 dark green-bound bricks of scholarship with a 720,000-item index, just published at the rebarbative price of $8,800 and worth every penny. This is, of course, the sister publication to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which, almost since its publication in 1878, has reigned unchallengeably as the authoritative work in its field. After the relentless barrage of propaganda about information that has been growing...
...faith and science can be vexing, but one way the Roman Catholic Church and mainstream Protestant denominations reconcile the two is to say they each deal with different spheres of knowledge and so are not in conflict. This is a sort of metaphysical version of Christ's admonition to render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's, and it is a position that Pope John Paul II reaffirmed last week when he made a statement on evolution. "Consideration of the method used in diverse orders of knowledge allows for the concordance of two points...
...Families First agenda, which calls for expanded health insurance for children, greater pension security and increased aid to education. Whether a re-elected Clinton would support those measures, however, is uncertain. Least likely is the combination of a Dole presidency and a Democrat-led Congress--an outcome that could render Dole's entire agenda, from tax cuts to shrinking government, dead on arrival on Capitol Hill...
...extension, their career. This book is about finding rational ways to survive what Grove calls the "10x"--tenfold--factors that can threaten to change everything about a business in an instant. Just as the car turned horse buggies into curiosities, new technology like the Internet, Grove predicts, will render obsolete hundreds of businesses that are thriving today. The lessons Grove has learned in building Intel into a giant resonate beyond the inside of a PC. "People who try and fight the wave of a new technology lose in spite of their best efforts," he writes. "They waste valuable time...