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...early became aware that the forces and skills which scientific research was turning loose on the world could possibly liberate, and might destroy it. Wells believed that in order to cope with these forces and with himself, man had only to embrace all that a scientist would call reasonable, and reject all that a scientist would call unreasonable...
...prehistoric man, said to have lived in what is now the Mount Carmel district in Palestine a thousand centuries ago and brought to the University's Peabody Museum by the scientist who unearthed him, will be the most difficult to see of all the University celebrities for the next few months...
Whether one agrees with Hansen or Hazlitt, he must recognize that the latter is setting the economist a well-nigh impossible task. Forecasting the "long-run" effects of any policy calls for the talents of a Nostrodamus far more than for the skills of a social scientist. The awe-inspiring speed of twentieth-century technological change, and the sweeping alterations which it makes in social structure, render any long-range prognostication a risky business at best...
...scientist called the control room: "Check the electrical circuits...
...Then the scientist nodded to TIME's correspondent. "Turn the switch." The switch looked like a valve on a gas stove, it turned easily. Control rods (probably of cadmium) clanged into place. They soaked up the vital neutrons faster than they were produced from the uranium. The pile stopped...