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Giant pandas are peculiar bears, members of the order Carnivora. Conventional bears are the most omnivorous representatives of their order, but pandas have restricted this catholicity of taste in the other direction--they belie the name of their order by subsisting almost entirely on bamboo. They live in dense forests of bamboo at high elevations in the mountains of western China. There they sit, largely unthreatened by predators, munching bamboo ten to twelve hours each...
...School more than fifteen years ago, which I have publicly defended on numerous occasions, and which I continue firmly to support. Instead, the study was designed to review the literature and the data on the various methods, such as testing and interviewing, used to evaluate all students in order to inform interested persons at Harvard about what is known concerning the reliability of these methods and to communicate any useful insights and innovations developed through research and experience here and elsewhere. The draft in fact concerns itself only in small part with the material the Crimson published...
...usual way of stating the difference was that one school was for "balancing" the need for, say, free speech against the need for law and order. The Frankfurter school was for "balancing." Black and I thought that all the "balancing" had been done by those who wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They had set aside certain domains where all government regulation was banned. When it came to certain activities, the Constitution had taken government off the backs...
...Hardly proud of his new domicile, Ragan says dejectedly: "We're just going to have to live in a place we don't really want." In Milwaukee, Jean and Ron Ross have been hoping to sell the duplex unit they have owned since 1972 in order to trade up to a detached house. Even though the value of their home has gone from $30,000 to $75,000, they are no closer to the house of their dreams than they were eight years ago. Says Ross: "It's depressing that we could spend $100,000 and still...
Several of the larger cable TV companies have already teamed up with major corporations in order to get the huge capital outlays necessary to bring in new subscribers and to develop programming for television. Time Inc., the second largest cable TV operator, acquired American Television and Communications Corp. in 1978; and American Express Co. last year bought a 50% interest in Warner Communications' cable TV division, which is the fifth largest cable TV company. Explains Teleprompter Chairman Jack Kent Cooke: "Cable TV is into the big money era. Without a very rich grandfather, you can't keep...