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...radio astronomy to a rewarding maturity that might produce more scientific discoveries than the $40 billion program to put a man on the moon. And if while using their powerful instrument radio astronomers pick up a hint of an intelligent pattern in UHF signals from space, Oliver says, "an age-old question will have been answered. We will know that we are not alone...
...illuminating the room, I do alert the prowler?" Although the question sounds as relevant as the medieval puzzler about how many angels can dance on a pinhead, Wiggins notes that it has highly practical implications in fixing intention and responsibility, and theoretical ones in helping to solve the age-old puzzler of free will v. determinism. Free will is back in philosophical style, and Wiggins concedes that the traditional way of stating that problem "wasn't after all in quite such a mess as had recently been supposed...
Matter of Cash. At the root of the Filipino dilemma is the age-old Asian problem of too many people, too little food. Population is growing by a million a year, and some 360,000 youngsters enter the labor market annually, only to find jobs largely lacking. To feed this fecund people, Marcos must produce 4,600,000 tons of palay (unhusked rice) in the coming year; even at that he will have to import 600,000 tons-at a cost of $65 million...
...first got involved, regardless of political instability, and regardless of how important economics, sociology, and the Asian psychology may be. The general American public have far more accurately assessed our Vietnam role and purpose than a few, noisy college professors and students. "The purveyors of age-old aggression are the culprits...
...peace, no one had any high hopes of getting it. The battle that has been joined on the Punjab plain has been building for hundreds of years. Ever since the 16th century Mogul invasion of India, Moslems and Hindus have fought each other for control of the subcontinent. The age-old feud was put in cold storage during the long era of British rule, but burst into flame in all its old fury in 1947 as both India and Pakistan became independent...