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...ever been to a Harvard football game you've seen all those ridiculously dressed big bastards pounding their heads together and fighting for that stupid ball but you were there to see the band anyway and you got tanked up with your roommates at the barbecue lunch and you really couldn't make out any shapes so you just kept screaming unintelligible epithets about opposing coach's mother and then you passed out. Go Harvard...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: A day in the life of... | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...only thing that stands between the magnificent wild animals of Africa and their final annihilation is what you call the tsetse scourge [April 25]. If stupid men find the means of eradicating trypanosomiasis, even stupider men and their dumb cattle will destroy the remaining elephants, lions and tigers, who are naturally immune. And inexorably, the men will overpopulate and the cattle overgraze the land until a new equilibrium is reached. But the great wild animals will be extinct. One man's scourge is another man's blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1977 | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Neither the pessimists nor the optimists can afford to be dogmatic. Says Sheldon Lambert, manager of energy economics and forecasting for Shell: "Anyone who says he knows exactly what the reserves are or when we are going to run out of gas and oil is either naive or stupid." Areas that seem promising often turn out to be duds. U.S. companies have sunk well after well off the northwest coast of Florida in a spot where the geological characteristics seemed encouraging; they all have been dry. By contrast, oil turns up in places that looked hopeless. In the North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Guessing What's There | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...Some things The Book of Lists does not say about lists: a) they can be boring, silly and stupid (in 1976 visitors to Madame Tussaud's Waxwork Museum in London selected Twiggy as the most beautiful woman in the world); b) they are a poor key to civilized achievements ("Diets of 10 Famous People" includes Michelangelo and Billie Jean King); c) they lack plot development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Help for the Listless | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...economic ocean zones established by the Law of the Sea Conference are stupid. Cousteau said, because ocean currents will spread the damage inflicted on any particular zone into other countries' zones, leading to international conflicts...

Author: By Steven A. Wasserman, | Title: Hart, Cousteau Talk Oil, Water | 4/26/1977 | See Source »

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