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...incident that began this war of words occurred about two weeks ago, on Sunday, Sept. 29, when a group of about 10 students arrived at 124 Mount Auburn St. for a job training session. The door to the lobby was locked and a sign instructed us to use another entrance or to call the security office. Some of us students chose the latter option, and we were shortly buzzed into the lobby...
...Italian American who lived in Italy 10 years, I found the selection of a black Miss Italy very promising [PEOPLE, Sept. 23]. The Italians are setting an important example for others. They appreciate beauty independent of skin color. But the choice remains controversial. Half the Italians believe that the winner should represent them as a people and embody nearly 3,000 years of history, culture and tradition that are unique. Others believe differently. But Italy, as a modern republic, is composed of many different people. Since this is the case, the representative of the country's beauty could...
After reading your review of Paul Horgan's controversial book The End of Science [IDEAS, Sept. 9], I've come up with some additions to the list of science's "unsolved mysteries." The creation of the universe is attributed to the Big Bang, but where did the superdense mass that existed before the bang come from? Also, it has taken thousands of years for modern man to develop the computer. What took so long? Is today's high-tech engineer of a higher mental capacity than Aristotle, who, as you say, couldn't have conceived of the Hubble Space Telescope...
...going to be politically correct in the resuscitation of the children's classic The Story of Little Black Sambo [BOOKS, Sept. 9], let's at least get the facts correct. Anyone who has ever read the original Sambo story knows it has nothing to do with Africa, but was set in India. For one thing, wild tigers are not found in Africa; they exist only in Asia. Also, Africans are not the only black people in the world. The dark-skinned folk in the story have characteristics similar to those of an ethnic group in southern India. To assume that...
Readers are informed in your Health Report [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 23] under the heading "Good News" that a cancer drug that stops the rapid cell division of the embryo is to be tested on 3,000 U.S. women as "a nonsurgical approach to abortion." This is good news? For whom? Not the unborn. JIM MALIA Totland Bay, Isle of Wight, England...