Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...forewarned--Hug A Light will not stay a blinking baby for long. Beneath the garish fur beats a heart eveready for...well, let the box explain. "Give me a squeeze about 2" below my blinking light and I'll show you how good it feels to have a birthday hug (I blink faster when I get excited and happy...
...years since, over 150 doctoral theses (in French and Japanese as well as English) have tried to explain exactly what those dozen splendidly provoking essays meant. This three-day gathering, half birthday party, half academic cracker-barrel session, has added a second question: Why do the Agrarians, with their crusty prophecies and affirmations, still sound so pertinent, half of a very non-agrarian century later...
...quakes were warnings from an angry deity. Today, scientists prefer another explanation, an all-encompassing view of the earth known as the theory of plate tectonics. It holds that the planet's surface consists of a dozen or so restless plates, each about 70 miles thick. Their movements explain volcanoes, the rise of mountains and the drift of continents. They account for quakes as well, most of which seem to occur where the great plates meet-at the so-called Ring of Fire, for instance, the tremor-and volcano-prone region that rims the Pacific Ocean and outlines...
Still, reader curiosity about the future may be insatiable: How else explain the popularity of astrology columns? Probably the most ambitious and serious attempt to hunch the future was the Carnegie Corporation-financed Commission on the Year 2000, a gathering of distinguished scholars directed by Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell. It met in the '60s but petered out by 1972. "It makes no sense to predict the future," says Bell. "There are too many contingencies. What you can do is identify relevant frameworks, and identify problems-but you don't know what will be done about them, which...
...have time to consider the issue at that meeting, however, and the issue at that meeting,however, and the recommendation has now been "post-poned indefinitely" - although not because of the GUERRILLA action, Epps said yesterday. He refused to comment on the action specifically or to further explain the reasons for the postponement...