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...tradition of the electric toothbrush and the high-speed electric cocktail mixer, the latest effort-saving gadget is the Name Caller, which does away with the need of dialing a telephone. By pressing a button on the device, which can be easily attached to the phone, a user can reach any one of 38 numbers. Besides its speed and convenience, the Name Caller provides a foolproof way for a baby sitter to phone police, firemen or the family doctor in an emergency. The gadget-about the size of a small bathroom scale-has been available for only four months...
Newspaper ads and television commercials make it clear that the Name Caller links directly into the switching systems. A user can hook up the device by opening his phone box with a screw driver and connecting a couple of wires. With an IBM electrographic marker, the user records phone numbers on a revolving belt inside the machine in much the same fashion as high school students black out answers to a computerized test. As many as 38 phone numbers can be programmed onto the belt; later, any of these numbers can be changed by erasing the black markings and starting...
What's worse than trying to sleep to the drip-drip of a leaky faucet? That's right. Trying to study to the clank-clank of a steam pipe. That's what the average stall-user has to contend with daily in Widener Library. With all respect to Widener's age and reputation as a bulwark of books, the place has at least this one uningratiating side. I guess you'd call it just old-fashioned wind. At any moment, the quiet of your stall is likely to be shattered by a god awful, devil-inspired cacophany of thumps, whacks...
...belief that magical power--whether medicinal or mystical--resides within the drug rather than within the consciousness of the user, is the cause of most drug abuse, and, more generally, harmful conceptions about the consciousness itself. Anxious Americans try to escape with drink or dope for the same reason that Indians prefer an injection to the medicine man's traditional methods. Weil's most important and far-reaching point in The Natural Mind is simply this: that the power to heal and to perceive the self fully lies within the mind, not outside...
...Olduvai Gorge in what is now Tanzania, Leakey and his wife, Mary, unearthed the 1.75 million-year-old remains of the Zinjanthropus (East Africa Man) in 1959. One year later they uncovered the slightly older remains of the Homo habilis, which Leakey identified as the first primitive tool-user. These discoveries, Leakey asserted, demonstrated that different species of men existed simultaneously and proved that their origins were in Africa rather than Asia. Though some paleontologists disputed Leakey's claims, in 1961 he unearthed still older fossils which, he insisted, showed the existence of manlike creatures who lived as long...