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The farce of lectures: I have never learned any physics of any significance from a lecture. Yet, there is an insistence that professors be pedagogues who reveal the world and from whom knowledge flows. Even the best lecturers are useless when they merely perform lengthy derivations on the blackboard that...

Author: By Peter L. Clateman, | Title: Attacking the Myth of Genius | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

The town they are terrorizing holds a meeting to name their antagonists, decides "graboids" will do nicely and starts dithering over defensive strategies. Perfection, Nev., by this time has a total population of nine, not counting the plucky visiting geologist (Finn Carter), but it has all the social stratums a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Whole Lot of Quaking | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

A. Many are still stuck in the world of 1960. What we face now is totally new and dynamic -- and we are quite unprepared for it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETER DRUCKER: Facing the Totally New and Dynamic | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

Now that a consensus is building that the U.S. must pick out the black money from the gray, the tools at hand seem minimal for the task. Says Jaime Chavez, an international banking consultant: "The people who will probably be searching for it have a very limited knowledge of what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

The student leaders may have individual faults. Some are immature, unprepared for individual fame and responsibility, unschooled in the ways of Western pressure politics and international initiatives. The movement for democracy in China is not yet clearly defined as a result. It is growing, though, gaining experience and acceptance as...

Author: By Jonathan F. Dresner, | Title: Defending Chinese Dissidents | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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