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...afraid to hurt the poem. It's not something you simply hold up to the light and investigate. It's an experience you share with the poet." There was a long silence. Girls in wet jackets and boys with gawky legs looked up at me. "For God's sake," I pleaded, "don't be afraid of the poem. Please." But my audience held on tenaciously to their silences. I read a short poem about lunch, sweeping them with my eyes, trying to let them know that the poem cared...
...device is cylindrical and about the size of a 35-mm. film cassette; the American is rectangular, half the size of a cigarette pack. The half life of Pu-238 (the time in which it loses half of its radioactivity) is almost 90 years. But for safety's sake the surgeons expect to replace the plutonium power source after about ten years...
...past models." In today's inflationary economy, there is a certain amount of dissatisfaction among automakers that the annual changes add so much to their bills for tooling and marketing. The consumerism movement has also made customers more concerned about prices and less interested in change for the sake of change. Last week G.M. announced that its new subcompact car, which is called Vega 2300 and is scheduled to roll out next September, will not look any different for at least four years...
...excessively reluctant to accept foreign investment. Many of its industries are closed entirely to outside capital. A four-step program of liberalization, which began in 1967, opens some industries to foreign ownership. While the list includes fabricated iron and steel, most of the other fields that it unlocks-including sake manufacturing, beauty parlors and driving schools-are of scant interest to a foreign investor. The total impact is slight because the list offers little new opportunity in such key sectors as auto manufacturing and electronic computers until the final stage of liberalization in 1971. Even then, the Japanese promise only...
...Science is essentially an aristic or philosophical enterprise- carried on for its own sake. In this- it is more akin to play than to work. But it is quite a sophisticated play in which the scientist views nature as a system of interlocking puzzles. He assumes that the puzzles have a solution, that they will be fair. He holds to a faith in the underlying order of the universe. His motivation is his fascination with the puzzle itself- his method a curious interplay between idea and experience. His pleasures are those of any artist...