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Popular mythology has often portrayed scientists as selfless seekers after ultimate truths about the universe. In fact, like ordinary mortals, some researchers are driven as much by ambition and ego gratification as by intellectual curiosity. As the stakes get higher -- especially when the chance of a Nobel Prize looms -- that drive sometimes manifests itself in unseemly behavior...
...better chance for survival. The cultural revolution unleashed an orgy of violence and civil strife which Deng is committed to avoid, an understandable objective in a land of a billion people and hence Hu's fall. Moreover, Mao's call for the spiritual transformation of his subjects into selfless collectivists flew in the face of human nature and Chinese reality. Deng's agricultural reforms, by contrast, have unleashed peasant energies, generated massive increases in outputs and doubled rural living standards...
...university's priorities of "truth and learning" by our participation in ROTC. However, we do take offense in the implication that service to country is less valuable than service to the university. Truth, learning and service to country can each be components of selfish pursuits as well as selfless ones. But unique to the idea of service to country is the desire to place the needs of our society above our own interests. Those who benefit do so regardless of race, color, religion or sexual preference. Brian C. Harrington '87 and 13 other students in Harvard ROTC
OBVIOUSLY, POLITICS was more complicated than I had realized. Years of hard work, selfless determination, and $1000-a-plate dinners would be needed before I could hope to fathom such a complex issue. But I had one final question for Mr. Fury before I left...
Mobil decided to let everyone know about its selfless crusade for human dignity last week. In a powerful ad on the op-ed page of The New York Times, Mobil had a "positive story to tell about its ten years of fighting apartheid in South Africa...