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...arts in teaching. Her new emphasis on dealing "with one person at one level at a time" is an outgrowth of her post-Wheaton frustration over conventional reformist projects. As a graduate student at the Columbia School of Social Work, she went to Harlem to act as a "block catalyst." Her block was black on one side and Puerto Rican on the other; she was neither black nor Spanish. "My role," she says, "just was not valid." After another year of drifting among various office jobs, she ended up in Vermont, where she has stopped chain-smoking, turned watchful...
ALMOST unnoticed because of the distractions of Viet Nam, the rest of Asia has been undergoing some widespread and fundamental changes. In the past several months, a suddenly cooler China has been the catalyst of a number of gradual shifts that have been taking place in the mood and manner of Asia's capitals. Last week's invitation to the U.S. table-tennis team to visit China was an example of Peking's new approach...
Ingenious as the theory was, scientists still demanded proof that the molecule actually replicated itself. That proof was quick to come. By 1956, Arthur Kornberg, then at Washington University in St. Louis, discovered an enzyme, or natural chemical catalyst (which he named "DNA polymerase") that was apparently critical to some of the activities of the double helix. Once he obtained enough of the enzyme, he placed it in a test-tube brew with a bit of natural DNA, one of whose strands was incomplete, the four bases (A, T, C, G) and a few other off-the-shelf chemicals. True...
This concurs with the Arabs' own needs. Affected by centuries of tribal infighting and repressive philosophic traditions, they are unable to sustain the revolt they launched because they do not comprehend the extent of their power and virtue. Lawrence serves as their catalyst; recognizing British colonial interests, he dares Prince Feisal to take a battle initiative on his own, without the Allied artillery and 'discipline' which could blunt the Arab guerrillas' effectiveness. With the mercenary Howeitat tribe, Lawrence crosses the Nehfu Desert to take the Gulf of Aqaba. (This is, of course, a convenient fiction; Aqaba was taken only after...
...Soviet Union as 'shameful,' by England as 'abhorrent,' by Belgium as 'thoroughly repugnant,' by India as 'hateful,' by Guinea as 'inhuman,' by Bolivia as 'the negation of all social purpose,' by Japan as 'fundamentally immoral,' by Canada as 'degrading,' by Algeria as 'cancerous,' and by Tanzania as 'a catalyst of violence.' Even the redoubtable Richard Nixon said of apartheid-in his state of the empire address of last Spring-"We abhor the racial policies of the white regimes." Furthermore, how often have we heard appeals directed to the rulers of South Africa-even by critics of the society writing from...