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...volcano about to blow? A poisoned water supply or a building collapse or a < riot? You ought to have been in In- dianapolis. Professor E.L. Quarantelli, director of the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center, has investigated more than 450 disasters ("One loses track") and expects his work load to grow. "The future will be worse than the past," he declared. "We should not be preparing for nuclear-plant accidents or chemical spills or earthquakes. We should be preparing for disasters, period...
...career was the cockpit of modernism, where surrealists, Dadaists and constructivists fanned the air with their manifestos. Kertesz felt the breeze but sailed his own course. He absorbed the lessons of constructivism, without becoming an arctic formalist. His fellow Hungarian expatriate Laszlo Moholy-Nagy could turn people into compositional load bearers upholding a grand design. Kertesz linked his formal sense to benign temperament. Joining elegant compositions to gentle human anecdotes, he achieved a formalism with the juice still flowing...
...Reagan plan is entirely clear. It would reverse a 20-year trend of tax cuts for business that has resulted in individuals shouldering a proportionally heavier load of the burden. The basic mechanism remains clear too: lowering rates but making more income taxable by scrapping or reducing exemptions and deductions. Within that grand design, though, there are hundreds of provisions varying widely in impact. Details: Individual rates. The move to a three-stage, 15%-25%-35% rate structure would by Administration calculations reduce taxes for 58.1% of all American families; 21.2% would see no change except in the way that...
...course, "Jesus and the Moral Life," has the ever-popular attraction of omitting the final exam. The only requirements are a 15-page paper, a one-hour midterm and an uncommonly small reading load. "Some find my course easy, some find it rather difficult," Cox says...
...travels, just now, with a light load of baggage (see following story). Her physical possessions, she says, amount to not much more than the ragbag of goofy clothes that serve as her professional and private wardrobe, a ten-speed bicycle stored in New York and a Chinese rug in Los Angeles. No house, no apartment, no car, no rich-at-last jewels or stereo system. She seems to have passed through the lives of a lot of people and to have remained in not many. She sees her father and stepmother only rarely...