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Harvard's halls contain several athletic and mathematic Olympians who have participated in international competition...
...every hundred stars might host a planet capable of supporting life and our own galaxy could contain a billion such stars...
UNFORTUNATELY (or fortunately--take your pick). I have left little space to discuss Andy Rooney's book, Pieces of My Mind. The book does contain some good moments, but they're drowned in a flood of simple-minded nostalgia and self-absorption. Too many of the book's pieces are stereotypical Rooney examinations of the little things in life. The chapter "It's Only a Plate" contains essays titled "A New Kitchen," "Old Appliances," "Buying Clothes," "Shoes," "Wastebaskets," and "Underwear," which contains this immortal line: "One of the pleasures of a vacation is being able to wear your old underwear...
...describing President Reagan's new federal anticrime laws as historic and far reaching [LAW, Oct. 29]. But the criminal-law experts you cite, who express doubt about the act's effect on the crime rate, fail to recognize the practical significance of these reforms. The laws contain tough new measures to help fight organized crime and major drug trafficking, which have been estimated to cause as much as half of all street crime. The anticrime package also contains more than 50 new sections, many of which enhance local law-enforcement efforts. These include statutes providing for tough action...
...most intriguing proposals came from Thomas Sebeok, a professor of semiotics at Indiana University. Sebeok called for the creation of an "atomic priesthood" to pass along, over the millenniums, rituals and legends that would explain the dangers of waste dumps. Such forms of communication, said Sebeok, could contain "the veiled threat that to ignore the mandate would be tantamount to inviting some sort of supernatural retribution." The task force cautioned that "there is controversy among historians over the efficacy of oral transmission as a method for accurately conveying information over long time periods" but suggested further study of the technique...