Word: shortsightedness
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Sir / Anyone who would not include Washington, D.C.'s National Symphony Orchestra on an orchestral "on the rise" list is either shortsighted, a cultural snob or has a closed mind.
Even more shortsighted is the President's research and development propram. If a crash effort costing perhaps $2 billion a year is not undertaken to make the U.S. self-sufficient in fuels -especially through liquefying or gasifying coal-the nation may well find itself either burning more polluting fuels...
There is no question that the President must save money. But by cutting back basic research in so many key areas, is he sacrificing some unexpected future achievement of untold economic or social importance-a discovery comparable, say, to the transistor or the polio vaccine? Many scientists are certain he...
Unfortunately, these comments accurately traced the pattern of the times. First the mechanics started to break down--the candidates unenthusiastic and dilatory, the editors slow and sloppy--and then the paper began to look less and less a newspaper, interviews, profiles, press handouts--anything but real news appeared on the...
The defender was René Dubos, distinguished Rockefeller University microbiologist, elder statesman of science and author (A God Within, So Human an Animal). In a major address entitled "Humanizing the Earth," Dubos, 71, disputed one of the fashionable credos of contemporary environmentalists: that any human interference with nature is in...