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...They are the current rage of astrophysics, a marriage between the older disciplines of astronomy and physics. Says Astrophysicist W. David Arnett of the University of Chicago: "Black holes are where it's happening these days." Hardly a week passes without the publication of some jarring new conclusion or insight about black holes in the scientific journals. In one of several
...reported ability of a single Washington lobbyist to change legislation dramatically with simple arguments and a single contact on the Hill is unrealistic. A check with TIME'S own Washington lobbyists would have provided insight into the complexities of dealing with the Federal Government...
...image: his omnipresent cigarette and theatrical voice lend dignity to everything he says. The words themselves, unfortunately, are banalities. In interviews with John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Agnes de Mille, Maria Callas, Sir Thomas Beecham, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, he rarely extracts a witticism and never an insight. "Have you opened all your wedding gifts?" he asks the newlywed Kennedys in 1953. He then goes on to stock questions that permit the young Senator to rattle off his policy positions by rote. Murrow's notion of challenging Bogart, Bacall and Monroe is to ask them to name...
Evolution. "Virtually all Catholic opposition to evolution has vanished-mostly because of the insight that if God works out his designs slowly and gradually instead of abruptly, his style is even more impressive...
...budgets, a declining student population and a swelling number of highly educated people for whom no jobs exist, institutions of higher learning have entered a new crisis period. Pusey's easy optimism consequently strikes a jarring note. His report provides information on past achievements but fails to supply any insight into how the more pressing problems facing American colleges and universities today might be resolved...