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...beauty and ageless craftsmanship account largely for the drawing power of Tut's treasures. "They are so fresh they kind of wipe out time," says Thomas Moving, who as former head of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum organized the show and has written the best-selling Tutankhamun: The Untold Story (Simon and Schuster; $12.95). Although many of the exhibit's 55 pieces are gold, Hoving maintains that the value of the collection is "not a critical part of its popularity." (Asked how much it is worth, he replies airily: "$416,872,417.68, plus green stamps...
Nevertheless, Recombinant DNA, The Untold Story thoroughly documents a tale that needed telling. Non-scientists should assume more responsibility for keeping themselves informed of developments within the scientific community. In the case of recombinant DNA, Lear echoes many scientists' calls for risk-assessment experiments so the debates on safety can be based on fact rather than speculation. The recombinant DNA battle shows that scientists and the public should not confront one another, but should cooperate to achieve a mutually beneficial goal, the original goal of science--the betterment of the human condition...
Well, VW bought the pennsylvania package, the $135 million loan, $40 million for the buy up-lease back, $30 million for the transportation links, and untold millions in abated taxes. Milton Shapp looked like a financial wizard, and the Rabbits and Dashers came rolling off the line in New Stanton. No one picked up on the Cleveland Plain Dealer interview with the president of volkswagen America: He said that VW had never really considered the Ohio site, because the tank factory was simply too antiquated for their purposes, and that the company had always intended to go to New Stanton...
...Simon, Kristol believes that conservatives have suffered from a lack of ideas. He takes issue with such champions of the free market as Hayek and Milton Friedman, who believe that capitalism is its own reward, that its blessings are automatic and should be appreciated for what they are. Echoing untold prophets and philosophers, Kristol warns that materialism is not enough. People have to believe that an institution offers a model for behavior...
Finally it was over. After 109 days, two abortive contract offers and untold expenditures of rancor, obstinacy and personal discomfort, rank-and-file members of the United Mine Workers voted late last week to end their strike. With union leaders promising that the 165,000 miners would return to their jobs on Monday and mine owners predicting that coal shipments would be back to normal within the week, the energy crisis that had been threatening-but never quite materializing-in a dozen Eastern Central states seemed to have passed...