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Ehrlich, a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University, and his wife Anne, a biological research associate, have carefully documented their book, and it is also fascinatingly readable--an all-too-rare combination. Extinction has the abundant facts and examples of a textbook and a bibliography of more than 50 pages--yet it reads like a novel. And though the arguments linking man's fate with those of other species are weak, they are interesting...
...textbook illustration of how not to conduct an investigation," said an angry Sam Nunn of Georgia, ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. It "wasted a historic opportunity" to root out corruption and mismanagement, said the subcommittee's 190-page report, released last week. The object of those disparaging words is a fiveyear, $5 million investigation by the Labor Department of an enormous pension fund controlled by officials of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters-a union whose ties to organized crime have inspired a number of federal probes over the years and whose power, and powerful friends...
...consecutive days last week when the competitors, in two 4½-hour sessions, grappled with six problems, selected by an international committee only days before the contest to prevent leaks. These tested skills in geometry, number theory and algebra, yet demanded creativity and originality as much as textbook learning. (Sample problem: three congruent circles have a common point O and lie inside a given triangle. Each circle touches a pair of sides of the triangle. Prove that the incenter and the circumcenter of the triangle, and the point O are collinear.)* Though the problems were Greek to laymen and probably...
...parodying the most recognizable traits of textbook modernism as reflected by its satirists, Lichtenstein may certainly be said to display a post-modernist sensibility; but what else is going on? Not, it appears, very much, and to call these paintings "visionary," as Cowart does, is to overrate them. Rather, they are grounded on a somewhat smug familiarity with the power of cliche. That, of course, is one dilemma of art education...
Some observers say the change has already begun, and a comparison of two recent Harvard property deals may show the shift. One case--7 Summer Rd.--is a textbook example of what some see as the old don't give-'em-an-inch Harvard attitude; another--the development of a vacant lot on Mt. Auburn St.--may indicate a new willingness to work with and listen to the neighbors...