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Patrick S. Chung's column appears on alternate Saturdays. Happy Holidays to the guests of the Ascot Rhinoceros.
John Cobuzzi, a technician at the CfA, helps to develop mirros for a NASA X-ray studying telescope. Nestled in a lab filled with imposing rhinoceros-sized equipment designed to measure iridium lenses, Cobuzzi says the best thing about the CfA is "the "people here, the living knowledge."
The U.S. is quick to complain about countries that permit traffic in endangered animals and plants, but it rarely acts -- despite a 1978 law that authorizes trade sanctions against the offenders. Last spring, finally, the Administration used the law for the first time. It slapped a ban on some products...
Today the question has been muted with time; few other than historians debate the peculiar forces that usurped the rationality and strength of will of so many Germans to the extent that they tolerated Hitler and his agenda. Endless theorizing on the root causes of the Nazi psychological and emotional...
Ionesco's conception of "rhinoceritis" remains suffused with moral and practical implications although it strives only to investigate the personal motivations and character failures that made Nazism possible. That a whole town of provincial but well-intentioned and essentially good people could succumb to propagandistic slogans and mental manipulation seized...