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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear at just what magnitude (or diminutude) a number passes beyond the capacity of an ordinary person to grasp -that is, to picture the quantity. Yet obviously a great effort is required even to cope with what is symbolized by a billion. The proof lies in those familiar tormented illustrations that writers cook up in the hope of suggesting the amount of a billion: the 125-mile-high stack of dollar bills that would add up to about a billion, the airplane propeller turning around the clock at 2,400 r.p.m. that would fall short of spinning a billion times...
Plainly, a world that feeds on such impenetrable figures suffers a peculiar compulsion that might be called googolmania The hunger is, whatever else, a marvel to behold, providing the spectacle of a species unable to solve a 13% inflation rate, yet eager to be informed by the Guinness Book of World Records that the world weighs 6,585,600,000,000,000,000,000 tons...
...Yet, no matter how you choose to define "successful," the word applies to the Harvard women's soccer team, which raised its season record to a pristine 10-0 by condemning Princeton, 4-0, Saturday at Soldiers Field...
Drawing parallels between Ted Bundy--a Floridian accused of murdering 26 women and whose folk hero status is celebrated in T-shirts and songs--and Ted Kennedy, who Morgan says has not yet offered a sufficient explanation of Mary Jo Kopechne's death at Chappaquiddick, Morgan warned, "Trust not ye the right or the left on any issue in which women's lives are at stake...
First, he continually uses the terms 'Palestinians' and 'PLO' interchangably. The PLO is a terrorist organization which is alleged to represent the Palestinian people. Yet one wonders how much of the support that the PLO has at all is genuine, if they silence any and all dissension in their ranks, as in the case of the Palestinian religious official in Gaza who was shot 27 times last spring only because he intimated that may be the peace treaty might not be such a bad thing...