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Montana-born Thurow is a professor of economics and management at M.I.T. and was an adviser to George McGovern during the 1972 presidential campaign. He is the author of one of this year's most provocative books on the economy, The Zero-Sum Society. In it he argues in favor of a greater redistribution of income and wealth in American society. He also supports more Government involvement in planning the development of key economic sectors, especially new technologies...
Preparing for this year's studies has not been easy. Removed from the mainstream of Western thought for most of the last ten years, Zhao was forced to start from ground zero. Working with Daniel Bell, professor of Sociology, Zhao brought himself up to date by reading, among others, de Tocqueville's classic study, Democracy in America. His curriculum reads like a course of study in The Modern Western World: Bell's own Sociology 102, "Societal Analysis," Stanley Hoffmann's Government 185, "The United States in World Affairs," and Government 148, "American Political Development" with Samuel Huntington. A voracious reader...
...guide all these potential changes will require a degree of ethical judgment and social organization that humanity has rarely shown any sign of possessing. Just as the computer itself derives, however, from the simple proposition that all mathematical logic can be reduced to various combinations of zero and one, these revolutionary upheavals in human society are clearly vis ible in the distance. Indeed, they can be seen already in the birdlike contraptions that poke their fiery beaks into the un finished steel frames at the Jefferson plant in East Detroit...
...bits from a tool rack, drills a set of holes to a .005-in. tolerance and machines the perimeters of 250 types of parts. A man doing the same job can produce six parts per shift, with a 10% rejection rate. The robot makes 24 to 30 parts, with zero rejections. The machine costs over $60,000 and has saved $93,000 in its first year...
...team following its first Ivy and third overall loss in as many tries, 74-66, at Penn Saturday. The team has something to prove and wants desperately to prove it. It has size and talent, and seems to have desire, but so far it also has a big fat zero in the win column...