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...some members of Congress are not. Senator Paul Tsongas, a leading critic of U.S. policy in El Salvador, called the suspension of part of the land reforms a "breaking of faith." Said Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes, chairman of the House Inter-American Affairs Subcommittee: "These actions seem to confirm that the wrong guys...
...Singly decided to do a study on the matter. The result, a 14-page report that has triggered substantial interest in the French press, helps confirm one of the assertions of American feminism: marriage helps men in their careers and hinders women...
Okay, you don't have to take Wilber's word for it. But as more "serious" physicists like Wheeler and Capra sound like Zen Masters, and more and more gurus get wired up to bio-feedback machines, and as the rational West more and more confirms the metaphysics of the intuitive East, someone you trust is bound to confirm a great deal of Wilber's work. Sure, there are a lot of fakes who take advantage of the "Gee-Whiz" aspects of the field. But the west is going to have to accept the study of levels of consciousness...
Montgomery, who declined to confirm that Fiorina had accepted Harvard's offer said the department specifically sought a scholar with quantitative methods of research to fill Shapiro's position. But the search did not reflect a broad effort on the department's part to find more quantitative researchers, he said...
...validate the various "grand unification theories," which postulate the existence of superheavy monopoles and hold that three natural forces-electro-magnetism, radioactivity and nuclear bonding-are manifestations of a single grand force. Monopoles might also account for the mass in the universe that cosmologists say is "missing" and would confirm current ideas about the basic building blocks of matter...