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...nothing of several scientific ones, he has shown that he can bat out complex ideas with all the grace of his childhood hero, Joe DiMaggio. His writings have won a cluster of honors, including a 1981 American Book Award for his collection of essays, The Panda's Thumb, and a 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Mismeasure of Man. His latest chrestomathy reaffirms Gould's position alongside Physician-Essayist Lewis Thomas as an indispensable bridge between the "two cultures...
...near tragedy had a merciful ending, but in its wake came a sobering discovery: only a few pennies' worth of human carelessness had almost downed one of the world's sophisticated commercial aircraft. The cause of the Miami mishap was the absence of three thumb-size rubber seals, known as O rings, which are normally fitted to magnetized plugs on oil lines in each of the L-1011's Rolls-Royce engines. According to Eastern's maintenance procedure, the oil plugs with their O rings are removed overnight after each jetliner flight so that the condition...
...windowless room deep in a cinderblock office structure, 15 executives are learning how to use a personal computer. Prodded by two instructors, the pupils thumb through looseleaf training manuals, trying to find the exact combination of letters and numbers that will make the finicky machines do their bidding. There is a certain amount of head scratching and muttering. Complains one frustrated novice: "I run a $300 million division on a daily basis, and I can't find the A on the keyboard...
...habits die hard. After 26 months in prison, Jean Harris, convicted in 1981 of murdering Scarsdale Diet Doctor Herman Tarnower, still dresses up for visitors in a white blouse and a single strand of pearls. "I stick out like a sore thumb," says Harris, whose lawyer last week filed a motion for a new trial. She hopes to prove that she was mentally incompetent during some of the proceedings. "I did not murder Hy [Tarnower]," insists Harris. "There is a difference between murdering and killing. It was a tragic accident." It will be another two months before the Westchester County...
...Board. Dean [John R.] Marquand, to Freshman Advisers this fall and a description of the Board written by Thomas Crooks, a Special Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, appearing in a recent Parents Newsletter. Those with a taste for the arcane might like to thumb through the Senior Tutor's Manual, available in every Senior Tutor's office. One publication which, alas, cannot be made available, because it contains the names of individual students, is a huge tome known as The Precedents of the Administrative Board, which describes every significant case considered by the Board...