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Riesman predicted that "all of academia is likely to suffer" if the mandatory age were abolished. He says that while Harvard may suffer less, small liberal arts colleges will face a tougher time because they tend to have more tenured faculty...
...researchers suggest a daunting list of causes for such a poor showing. First, Americans tend to see math ability as innate. That, says Stevenson, gives youngsters a tailor-made excuse for not pushing hard, since the results are presumably preordained. Second, while U.S. schools tend to stress the broader creative skills of reading and writing, other countries, particularly in Asia, emphasize math burned in by persistent instruction and exercises...
While the Iran-contra scandal has virtually monopolized the attention of the American media since last November, Europeans tend to wonder what the fuss is all about. To a great many of them, the scandal seems like yet another perplexing case of American moralism run wild, a national exercise in self- flagellation. Many Europeans, who also never fully understood why Americans became so upset by the Watergate affair in the mid-1970s, feel that such a crisis could never happen in their own countries. TIME's Paris bureau chief Jordan Bonfante examines the European bewilderment concerning Iranscam...
...factors and issues involved in deciding a presidential election notwithstanding, voters ultimately tend to select the individual whose character and ideals they think are most suited to the challenges of the job. This is the first in a series of occasional TIME profiles that will attempt to give a sense of the personal characteristics and individual outlooks of the major potential 1988 contenders...
East Coast devotees of New Age thinking tend to favor faster-acting applications. Douglas Hardy, former manager of Star Magic, a space-age gift shop in Manhattan, suggests drinking gem and tonic -- literally, water "on the rocks" -- to get a "crystal hit." The crystal, it seems, sends its vibes through the water, which then charges up the person drinking it. Even more practical advocates suggest placing a cluster of "charged" crystals inside a refrigerator to accelerate cooling and thus reduce the electric bill or -- better yet -- attaching a 3-in. crystal to an auto carburetor to save on gas mileage...