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After some uncertain starts, pupils quickly adjusted to a program that relies on analysis rather than memory. By stressing principles rather than technology, the program attracts girls who would shun the normal, gadgetized course, also appeals to pupils with widely varying talents. At Taunton High School, pupils have cut short their lunch hours to get in extra work, are apt to hang around the labs long after everyone but the basketball team has quit...
...women below 30 and under size 14. Some stores claim that it comprises 50% of their stock. "It may look like hell on a hanger," says a Dallas retailer, "but get it on 'em and they love it because it's so comfortable!" But many shapely women shun it, say it is a fad as well as a fraud despite its "subtle sexiness." Less shapely women find they look even sadder in a sack...
...Just as in the Greek state the slave-owning few were freed from toil to pursue the duties of citizenship and the work of civilization, so all men could be similarly freed (argue K. & A.) in a future society where machines are slaves. In such a society, men could shun the "subsistence work" and "drudgery" involved in the production of "goods of the body" and-apart from the necessary tasks of management-turn to the arts and sciences, religion, education and all the other "goods of the soul...
...Cambodian government, and the proceeds are spent on dams, irrigation schemes and low-cost loans to farmers. The catch is that the caliber of the goods is so low-the cement takes twice as long as it should to harden-that even Cambodia's impoverished citizens shun them. Says one Cambodian government spokesman: "I have heard about gift horses, but this one is really an old nag." Last year's U.S. aid to Cambodia: $35 million -part of it for a modern highway and construction of a deep-water port on the Gulf of Thailand...
...national respect for scientists and scientific research-"There has been avoid ance if not evasion of the intellectual tax that must be paid if we are to balance our intellectual budget"-and for a greater awareness by scientists of their national, social, human duty. "The specialist," he said, "must shun the view that lopsidedness is laudable. He must be politically and morally responsible." Most notably in the context of his new job, Killian expressed sharp skepticism about U.S. defense's present three-service structure. "So far," he said, "we have not been able, in the definition of the roles...