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While China's political climate may be uncertain, Terrill says, the country remains stable socially and is ripe for sociological study. Ideology may no longer provide the vital clue to understanding China. "It's the political system at the national level that is less stable. But the family system, the communes in the countryside, the state-owned factories in the cities really run without much ideology, so Mao's thought will become an overarching ethic. The key to the stability of the commune and the factory level is organizational brilliance rather than Mao's thought." Chinese communism, Terrill explains, functions...
...always much more involvement when there's much more involvement in general--in politics, in society. Right now, there's very little involvement in anything. All that I or anybody else can do is to plant seeds that are probably going to lie dormant until the times are ripe; but if you don't plant the seeds, you don't have anything to grow from when times do change, and people do want...
Fascinated by that episode of psyching, Foote began to muse on the emotional pitfalls that can undo even the steadiest of players, and decided that the subject was ripe for investigation. Since then, with the help of tennis-conscious TIME correspondents across the nation, he has been busy surveying the social phenomena of the tennis scene. The result: this week's cover story, which Foote wrote. He tries to play tennis twice a week and describes himself as "an occasional shotmaker with an indomitable will to lose...
...interred in a medieval record-keeping system bulging with 5? million case files. Concedes Robert Farmer, the bureau's claims director: "We're the biggest casualty insurance company in the world, but you can almost write your name backward and get a claim. It's ripe...
Although the virus' incubation period is about two days, there were reports, still unexplained, of outbreaks beginning aboard ships that had been at sea for three weeks or more. Four years of war had left much of the world ripe for all sorts of epidemics, and many varieties of pneumonia-causing bacteria were pullulating. So was Pfeiffer's bacillus, which had been mistakenly identified in 1892-93 as the cause of influenza and therefore named Hemophilus influenzae. There is no doubt that among the millions who fell prey to the virus, many were simultaneously attacked by this...