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...whole history of the idea of comfort does Rybczynski attempt to define it. The simplest definition would be just "feeling good," but that is too simple. The scientific definition would be a "condition in which discomfort has been avoided," but that is too negative. Since Rybczynski is not a scientist but an architect, and a subtly witty analyst of how people live, he prefers to end with a metaphor, "the Onion Theory of Comfort." In this, the slowly evolving attributes of comfort -- privacy, intimacy, domesticity, pleasure, ease, leisure, efficiency, convenience -- form a series of layers, partly transparent so that...
...lawyer and political scientist with no bankerly credentials, Conable has suddenly become a central figure in the Reagan Administration's ambitious . plans to end the dangerous Third World debt crisis. His job is to buttress the lending efforts of the sedate World Bank, an institution well known for funding Third World dams, roads and other good works but never before considered a strategic centerpiece of the effort to maintain international financial stability. Conable's intention is clearly to change that. In his first official interview last week, he told TIME, "The World Bank is going to be a catalyst...
Sleight of hand: Reagan is the first complete television President. The implications of that mastery are unsettling. Says Political Scientist James David Barber of Duke University: "Television news is very heavy on feelings. There is always a temptation to reduce the question to sentiment. Reagan's criterion of validity is theatrical rather than empirical...
Laurence Lasky, a scientist at Genentech, Inc. of South San Francisco, announced that the firm has used genetic engineering to produce antibodies that neutralize the AIDS virus in a test tube. Lasky did not venture to guess if these antibodies can be formed in a human body, and the necessary tests could take months or years. To complicate matters, Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute reported that samples of virus isolated from the brains of AIDS victims inexplicably differ from the form of virus that commonly attacks the T cells of the immune system...
...even creation scientists concede that the verdict about the "man prints" has been convincingly handed down. "As a scientist, I am willing to be wrong if I am wrong," says John D. Morris, associate professor of geology at the Institute for Creation Research in El Cajon, Calif. His book Tracking Those Incredible Dinosaurs and the People Who Knew Them and a creationist movie on the same subject have been withdrawn from circulation...