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The group is currently polling members of the national professional associations in those fields in order to select the six candidates, Greenblatt said yesterday, adding that the severe shortage of Black academics in mathematics and the natural sciences made studying those fields impractical.
Some of the ideas are undoubtedly impractical, but many could reduce, in a modest local way, U.S. dependence on imported oil. The $12 million grants program, which is easily lost in DOE'S $7.7 billion budget, could perhaps even help some American tinkerer find a way to capture sunbeams...
Also missing is Latham's original point about the place and its habitues, which was a downer. He said it offered hardhats from the nearby refineries a chance to escape from their harsh, boring, workaday reality into a fantasy that was simultaneously readymade and hand-me-down. Duding up...
Indeed, in the months of planning that began within days of the seizure of the embassy last November, a wide range of rescue options was considered. "In the initial stages," General Jones said last week, "we did not see an option that had a reasonable chance of success. We tried...
What emerges from the letters is a relatively conservative philosophy toward effecting reform; he continually tries to shift the burden of proof to those who are demanding change. One critic points to what he calls an "essential hypocrisy" in the president's philosophy. On the one hand, Bok argues that...