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With these two assumptions. Bok seems to maintain an artificial separation of theory and practice. Not only must academic pursuit of knowledge be protected from the field of application, but also, our precious opiate, freedom of opinion and speech "as individuals" (Bok's emphasis), must be protected from the possibility that it might really influence policy...
...convince your buddy that Flesh Gordon is really lots better. It isn't, but it's shorter. Parodying the thirties Flash Gordon series, Flesh, an all-American Mr. Clean hero and his two musketeers, pursue the evil sex ray to its source, discovering a sexual munchkin land where Prince Precious and his tandy tribe frolic in spite of the Evil Wang's despotic rule. The special effects--including penises as monsters, trees, spaceships, etc.--all seem like the products of a pervert with a chemistry set in someone's bathroom. None of it really very funny, and the Orson Welles...
...export production from 5.5 million barrels a day to zero, the country's 27,000 drillers, engineers, technicians and other oil workers began returning to their jobs. In the fields of Marun and Ahwax Asmari, in the refineries of Abadan, and at the pumping center of Ahvaz, precious petroleum is beginning to flow anew as the industry struggles to resume limited export production...
...long overdue. What is more, even at $1 a gallon, gasoline in the U.S. still would be much cheaper than in almost all other industrial nations. Controls on gasoline prices do not simply need to be relaxed; they need to be eliminated altogether. Only when gasoline becomes too precious to waste will people stop wasting...
...elevate the medium," William S. Paley, chairman of the board of CBS, said in an interview published this week in Newsweek. Flatbush premiered Monday at 8:30 p.m. on channel seven in an effort, I suppose, to reassure the viewers that they need not fear any elevation of the precious lack of quality on television. This program seemed somehow even more offensive than The $1.98 Beauty Show because it came from a network with a history of excellence and pretensions of continued quality. An inept rip-off of Saturday Night Fever, Flatbush deals with the childish and unfunny activities...