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...products. The fact is that basic science in this country is devalued. So I would increase the National Science Foundation and the basic life-science agencies, in essence say to young people around this country, "Science and technology is the future. If you have a bent in that direction, stay there. We are going to assure you a future...
...major-league baseball reacted with disdain to a Japanese offer to buy the failing Seattle baseball team. Baseball, said the game's commissioner, countenanced only North American ownership. It is a rather odd America-first policy that counts Canada as an American appendage. Odd too that a sport so bent on maintaining national purity should play in a park where Barry Bonds is announced as the "voltigeur de gauche" and the foul lines are demarcated in meters...
...this time, CLUH averted much of the desire to pigeonhole the proposal in several committees by presenting its own study of the issue. Still, Jewett seems bent on at least some of the old foot-dragging, saying that the College must again examine other schools' policies and, of course, measure any negative reaction from alumni and parents--the real reason the College has not acted on the issue before...
...Barry Bent--Through March 27. Sacramento Street Gallery, 20 Sacramento St., Cambridge...
Clurman lets them reveal themselves in their own remarks and behavior: Nicholas as a bottom-line type who lusted for the merger (and the promised job of co-CEO) seemingly at any price; Munro as a backslapping cheerleader with a bent toward the banal and the four-letter word (with a grand retirement package awaiting); McManus as a beleaguered figure striving to salvage a degree of authority over the company's magazines and some esteem from his staffers while Brack belittles them by insisting that "the marketplace," not editors and thinkers, "should dictate what a magazine should...