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...microscopic to the transcendental. Nucleoli revealed worlds of meaning; peptides hid oceans of being. Charmed by Thomas' low-key lyricism, the judges of the National Book Award granted the physician-researcher its prize for arts and letters in 1975. Somehow the doctor had put his pulse on the thumb of the nation...
...become an instant symbol of so-called bipartisan cooperation in support of arms control, when in fact it is merely an artificial contrivance to allow congressmen to sleep well after they approve MX. But the MX is the root of the problem. It sticks out like a sore thumb and is obviously the reason for the President's eagerness to accomodate the authors of "build-down". Just as painfully obvious is Congress duplicity in cooking up "build-down"--it will serve as a shield when they approve the giant missile...
...hours later, the sense of relief was almost palpable. "The door is open for future meetings," said a smiling Colombian President Belisario Betancur as he posed with the seven Salvadorans. "The dialogue for peace in El Salvador has been directly initiated." But when asked to give a thumbs-up, thumbs-down verdict on the session, Peace Commission President Francisco Quiñónez evasively thrust his thumb sideways. Later, he described the meeting as "a total disappointment...
...Papert calls the "threshold of seriousness"-one half hour of computer use a day per child-would require at least another 3 million machines. Estimated cost: $4.5 billion. And if sufficient equipment were made available, the schools would still face a costlier problem: teacher training. As a rule of thumb, each dollar spent on computers requires two more dollars to teach the teachers how to use them. "If you don't change the preparation of the teachers," says Tucker, "putting a lot of computers into our schools would be an appalling waste of money...
...house at Haberlandstrasse, 5, a quiet thoroughfare near Berlin's zoölogical garden. A large iron door, which clangs as it shuts, keeps him in solitude and silence. The room smells of tobacco. He smokes a long-stem briar pipe, into which he tamps tobacco with his thumb. His working tools are paper and pencils on a good-sized table and his books (cheaply bound in paper for the most part) on shelves around the wall. Ornaments are a four-foot telescope and a large terrestrial globe. The grand piano in the room is his diversion...