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...darkness." In Roots, Haley wrote: "He must hear what others cannot, smell what others cannot. He must see through the darkness." Courlander cited 81 such passages. Haley's defense: during the years he wrote Roots, students and others who listened to his lectures often handed him notes and research without citing the sources...
...intercept illegal immigrants from Mexico. Organized labor is expected to fight the recommendation on the theory that more border guards will mean fewer U.S. jobs lost to foreigners. OMB is pro posing to chop the Energy Department budget from $10.5 billion to $8.8 billion. The cuts would reduce research into alternative energy sources and the rate at which the U.S. builds up its strategic oil reserve...
Refusing to accept a life sentence to the wheelchair, Waldrep began investigating an experimental and disputed Soviet treatment being used at Leningrad's Polenov Neurosurgery Research Institute. Helped by the intervention of Texas Congressman Jim Wright, the House majority leader, and contributions of nearly $15,000 from a T.C.U. fund raiser and his home-town folks in Grand Prairie, Texas, Waldrep arrived in Leningrad last October. He was the second American sports figure among the nation's estimated 200,000 spine-injured patients to make that pilgrimage this year. (The other was Race-Car Driver Bob Hurt...
Coveted though they may be, Nobel prizes can be mixed blessings to scientists. At every turn, the winners are beseiged with demands to make speeches, grant interviews and perform myriad chores that leave precious little time for research. Even worse, an awed public often takes their statements with almost oracular seriousness. So says Rosalyn Yalow, the 1977 Nobelist in medicine, who concludes that the most prized policy for a laureate may sometimes be silence...
Second, Killeen continues, give companies plenty of incentive to expand and export. Those settling in Ireland get government cash grants for building, training, research. Export profits are taxfree. Taxes on domestic profits are reduced from the normal 54% to 25% for companies that expand and create jobs. Says Killeen in his light brogue: "Corporate taxes in Ireland have been insignificant because, until recently, we didn't have much...