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NEARLY every TIME story, whatever its length, involves intensive research and reporting on all of its possible aspects. Among all our sections, Essay probably ranks as the one that, week after week, places the most demanding load on our researchers and correspondents. The basic reason is that its approach is so broad and deep. To provide writer and editor with food for thought and analysis, it must explore many areas of a subject that may never be mentioned on the printed page. Perhaps the most consistent sources for Essay are academics, particularly sociologists and psychologists, and we are deeply indebted...
...unfortunate when the innocent suffer, but I have seen the idiots in short pants slog through the marshes in Glacier Park to photograph a moose's eyeballs (the moose is about as nasty and unpredictable as the grizzly). I have seen them literally load bears into their cars in Yellowstone. It's stupid disrespect for nature and it's gettting worse. I can't blame the bears for mistaking people for garbage; it's sometimes hard for me to tell the difference...
...loftier cultural institutions, trying to get them to accept as a gift his $5,000,000 Gallery of Modern Arton Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The star-crossed A. & P. heir first sought to benefact Columbia and Fordham universities, which hastened to decline when they got a load of the museum's $3,800,000 mortgage and $500,000 yearly upkeep; now he hopes that some philanthropic soul like Uncle Sam will enable the Organization of American States to accept his charity. On the other phone, meanwhile, Hartford has been vainly paging his third wife, Diane...
...well computers translate instructions into their own language, how organized they are in storing similar bits of information close to one another, how often they unnecessarily repeat themselves in solving problems, how much information they store that is no longer needed, how individual computers share the overall work load on the network...
...snap. The CAB has long been anxious to dump the heavy Government subsidies ($54 million this year) needed to keep the feeders in the air. Henry & Co. promise to take an immediate 10% cut in their total $10 million a year handout, and expect to be carrying the full load in three to five years...