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...might just work-and it could be worse...
...complex of causes. First, there is the world's exploding population - itself a product of better medical care and improved nutrition brought by capital investment. Only 40% of the people alive today are in the labor force; thus the majority must be supported by the minority who work-and raising their productivity on farms and in factories requires copious quantities of capital. Second, increasing economic competition forces every society to spend more to modernize and automate. Expensive plants age and fade as quickly as cinema sex queens; machines that have been built to last 25 years must be scrapped...
...work on the problem of identity, by which he means the bewilderment of youth as it witnesses the confusion of modern man. For this modern man is uncertain of his place in society, with his old roles as husband, father and guardian of tradition diminished in favor of his work-and his work less and less under his own control. Another current hero of pop-psych is Norman O. Brown, author of Life Against Death. Not a trained psychologist but an English professor, he belongs to a group of academics who have been described as "professional amateur psychologists." Brown...
...easy credit, many an urban African can afford to buy imbuia wood furniture for his dining room, neat school uniforms for his children, and in some cases even a car for himself. Every year countless thousands of blacks from nearby countries flood into the republic looking for work-and the bright lights of the city life...
...knows what is being missed? About 90% of all scientists who ever lived are now at work-and, it seems, most are publishing their findings. In 1750, there were about ten scientific journals in the world; today there are about 7,000 related to the biomedical sciences alone. Once scientists wrote about physics, chemistry and biology; today they deal with the likes of biochemistry, bioengineering, exobiology and biophysics. In 1950, chemists produced 558 articles every two weeks for their publications; in 1965, in the field of chemistry alone, those learned explorers are turning out-and publishing -6,700 articles every...