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Nearly every major university today has its own academic press-a branch of publishing that seeks to bridge the gap between the world of scholarship and an increasingly educated public eager to find out what the scholars have to say. "We publish the smallest editions at the greatest cost," says Yale University Press Director Chester Kerr, "and on these we place the highest prices and try to market them to people who can least afford them. This is madness...
...view, World War II was a private affair in which officers were hypocritical, stupid or German, and only the dogfaced soldier was gutsy enough to be great. In this film, the lopsided interpretation works largely because of a fine cast and a taut plot that closes the credibility gap...
...that has never undergone a true political revolution or a religious reformation that could move it into the modern world. What divides the Arabs from Israel is not merely tradition or religion-for centuries past, Jews were far more tolerantly treated by Arabs than by Christians-but a culture gap. Israel, which in size constitutes less than .2% of the Arab lands, is hated by the Arabs in part because it is a successful, modern, Western state. It stands for all the things the Arabs resent, and yet want. If and when the Arabs manage to enter the Western-style...
Cytoplasmic incompatibility can be widely used to control mosquitoes, Laven says, but he cautions that total eradication of mosquito populations might have unpredictable ecological effects. To fill the gap that his control technique may create, he is attempting to produce a mosquito strain that will not transmit filariasis-and hopes eventually to develop a breed that simply will not bite humans...
...plushly modern dormitories, talked glowingly of new plans, programs, projects. But this appearance of comfortable affluence is largely deceptive. Behind the impressive fagades of most private universities and colleges there is a deep concern. They are in grave financial trouble, and many are searching frantically to close a dollar gap that threatens their very existence...