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...accepts as natural, and therefore correct, the tendency of people to do what is in their interest, not in the interest of others. Scientists want to study lasers (or study something and lasers is what they can get funded to study); therefore they should. Pursuit of knowledge. I wash my hands of it. Responsibility means nothing in discussions like this, except in reference to someone else It's someone else's responsibility how this stuff gets used. I'm just a researcher...
...country to stop buying school lunches, their districts will be unable to earn enough to run cafeterias with reduced federal subsidies. This would shut off free or cheap lunches for the needy too. So far, however, dropouts have been spotty. The 19-school Central Valley district in Spokane County, Wash., decided it could not come up with the additional $130,000 that it would have needed to run its lunchrooms with reduced federal subsidies. Now it prepares its own lunches with its own money, and charges $1 for each. Students who do not feel they can afford that price...
...concept is known as a Woonerf, a Dutch word that might loosely be translated as "protected precinct." Right now, the Woonerf is spreading through Western Europe, and the concept, in whole or in part, is in use in Boulder, Colo., and Seattle, Wash., and under consideration in Washington, B.C., Portland, Ore., and New York City. "My own feeling is that we should slow down traffic, not keep it out of residential streets," says Donald Appleyard, professor of urban design at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Livable Streets. "And the Woonerfhas proved a great success in European...
...program-writing language, BASIC which has sold more than 500,000 copies so far, Microsoft (projected 1981 sales: $14 million) was founded in 1975 by William Gates, then an 18-year-old Harvard student. Gates now oversees a staff of 96 at the firm's headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. Growth has come so fast that Gates has not yet found time to finish his degree at Harvard...
Requests for copies have come from as far away as Seattle, Wash., and as close as Winthrop. Councilor David Wylie, who, along with councilor Saundra Graham, originally proposed the unconventional brochure, said Monday that a number of cities, including Baltimore, Maryland, Sacramento, California, and Madison Wisc., have expressed interest in using Cambridge's pamphlet as a model for their own civil defense efforts...