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...this Rockies retreat has another resource, and its presence has touched off a classic preservation-vs.-progress scrap. The issue: should the interests of a small group, righteous as its cause may be, prevail over other interests that may affect the well-being of far more people, even that of the whole country? The resource is molybdenum (moly, as friend and foe both call it), a strategic metal used not only to strengthen steel but to make fertilizer, rubber, lubricants, plastics and paints. Just three miles from Crested Butte's Main Street, deep inside 12,414-ft. Mount Emmons...
...University would effectively "set up a category in which no white male could qualify," he said. Measures like the study suggested that give minorities or women special advantage. Mansfield argued, undermine the merit system and high standards on which the University is based--and Harvard would be wise to scrap such "bright ideas" before they damage the University's reputation and academic quality...
...facing the worst economic crisis in living memory," roared Marxist Union Leader Arthur Scargill. "Young people are being thrown on the scrap heap. We have to take the fight for jobs into the streets!" As Scargill stepped back from the podium, his audience of 2,000 Young Socialists jumped to their feet and broke into wild applause. Assembled at the seaside resort of Bridlington for their annual conference, the young foot soldiers of the Marxist left spent three days berating the established order. They joined in choruses of the worldwide revolutionary anthem, the Internationale. After each refrain, they raised their...
...some years we have been led to believe that over-45 executives were heading for the scrap heap. It was a pleasure to see the magnificent control with which 50-year-old Astronaut John Young brought Columbia back to earth...
...Martin shows the effects of his hard-hitting life. His face is weathered by time and his troubles. His most prominent features now are the eyes, darting to take in every scrap of action on the field. They are dark, with haunted circles that reveal his anguished inability to give up on a game, even long after it has ended. As a manager, Martin does not go gently into the night: "When I leave here to drive home, I think about the game the whole way. When I drive in the next day, I'm still thinking about...