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What really concerns me is not the educational philosophy of Resnick's editorial but its general attitude. When one has the chance to spend four years largely isolated from the demands of the modern economy, to study and to live with a few thousand other young students, it seems remarkably selfish to whine about "customer service." This is not to say that students should be cowed into gratitude and never ask anything from Harvard. One would hope, however, that when they do demand something, it might be for people other than themselves...
...dangerous new path, fraught with setbacks and surprises. But it's the third act that really makes the story newsworthy, when "the hero comes back from his mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man," as Joseph Campbell wrote in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In this magazine we bring you 20 such stories of heroes and icons, our choices of the people whose personal journeys were the most inspirational and provocative of the century. It's the fifth of our TIME 100 special issues profiling the era's most influential people. A complete list...
...funny thing happened to me one Sunday in September 1997. I had returned to Harvard early that year, and as I was walking through Harvard Yard, I noticed several thousand people seated in front of Memorial Church. At first, I took little notice. But as I tried to pass through the Yard and heard President Neil L. Rudenstine's voice over the loudspeakers, I suddenly realized what was going on: Convocation for the Class of 2001. In a fit of nostalgia, I sat down in the back and eavesdropped. And as I glanced around the Yard, I noticed that...
...clear that several hundred, and perhaps even several thousand languages, will vanish forever in the next century. To the extent that these languages express unique cultures, and form part of the mosaic of human intellectual activity, we must do everything we can to document them--and hopefully even save some of them--before it's too late...
...This is something that does happen from time to time,? says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. ?Once in the marketplace, a drug is used by millions of people, but during clinical trials, it is tested on only a few thousand people. So occasionally a small risk will get missed in the trials.? Beyond highlighting the fact that safety watchdogs need to continually update the risk-benefit analysis of the drugs they approve, the Trovan incident also underscores a more ominous development. ?We are running into more and more germs that are proving resistant,? says Gorman, ?and as a result...