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...name of Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead." The real-life Albert Shanker, leader of New York City's public school employees, scarcely looks like an earthshaker. In fact, he could easily pass for what he once was: a full-time schoolteacher. He wears thick glasses and is virtually blind in one eye; his face droops in a hangdog expression, and a habitual slouch seems to shrink his 6-ft. 3-in. frame. What places Shanker in the megaton range is the power he wields...
...picture of the present again lightened by her vision of the future. "One of my professional aims is to make that happen. Meanwhile, though, I'm not going to stop being an advocate; advocating for women is too much fun. And I like to be right in the thick of things all the time...
...graduate student in American literature who'd just finished up a 516-page thesis on Thoreau. Hesford had started looking for a teaching job almost two years before, but so far almost 100 letters to schools as far away as Nigeria had managed to turn up only a thick stack of rejections. The months dragged on, and Hesford conscientiously saved his rejection letters, took to drinking paper cupfuls of Mogen David wine during undergraduate tutorials and waited for Commencement. Then came a break--an offer from Birzelt College in Israeli-occupied Jordan to teach English to Palestinian refugees...
Hall says it is his job to be in the thick of controversy, to go out and actively try to change things. "One way to look at it is to say, 'I should not be involved in any controversy, I should be friends with everybody who could affect my destiny.' Then I can hang in there and not much would get done. I don't think Harvard deserves that or that Bok intended that," he says. Hall says he came here for the excitement and when he did he knew he had to expect to take flak: "This...
...development of a bold new geological theory called plate tectonics-which offers an elegant, comprehensive explanation for continental drift, mountain building and volcanism-seems finally to have clarified the underlying cause of earthquakes. It holds that the surface of the earth consists of about a dozen giant, 70-mile-thick rock plates. Floating on the earth's semimolten mantle and propelled by as yet undetermined forces, the plates are in constant motion. Where they meet, friction sometimes temporarily locks them in place, causing stresses to build up near their edges. Eventually the rock fractures, allowing the plates to resume...