Stephen Hess, in Society (Jan.-Feb. 1994), Rutgers-The State University, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
Once a staple of front pages and nightly news shows, regular coverage of Congress is now scant, especially on TV. CNN is now the only TV news organization that has correspondents cov- ering both the House and the Senate full-time, observes Hess, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
One reason for the change, he says, is a shift in power within many "mainstream" news or- ganizations....
religion, then took natural science as their guide early in the 20th century, today they draw from a wide variety of sources, ranging from French philosopher Jacques Derrida to mathematician Jolin von Neumann.
"Pliilosophy-which ought mission to be and is by tradition an integration of knowl- edge~liasitself become increasingly disinte- grated," Resclier laments. Yet American pliilosopl~y's "pluralistic character" is just "a realistic and effective accommodation" to...
the parties and candidates themselves.
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'The Death of Proof" John Horgan, in Scientific American (Oct. 19931,415Madison Ave., New York,
N.Y.10017-1111.
When Princeton's Andrew J. Wiles announced last June that he had solved Format's last tlieo- rem, his fellow mathematicians gasped iii aston- ishment. More than 350 years ago, Pierre de Fermat claimed that he had found a proof of the proposition that for the equation Xn + Y" =...
Mark Earnest and John A. Sbarbaro, in The Sciences (Sept.-Oct. 1993),New York Academy of Sciences, 2 E. 63rd St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Along with the rise of acquired immunodefi- ciency syndrome (AIDS) and human immuno- deficiency virus, there has been an unexpected resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) in recent years. The newspapers report ominously that today's TB is drug resistant. Yet all but "a minuscule fraction" of the 27,000 active TB cases today are treatable, note Earnest and Sbarbaro,...
Mark Earnest and John A. Sbarbaro, in The Sciences (Sept.-Oct. 1993),New York Academy of Sciences, 2 E. 63rd St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Along with the rise of acquired immunodefi- ciency syndrome (AIDS) and human immuno- deficiency virus, there has been an unexpected resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) in recent years. The newspapers report ominously that today's TB is drug resistant. Yet all but "a minuscule fraction" of the 27,000 active TB cases today are treatable, note Earnest and Sbarbaro,...
Robert Walser, in U7e Ml~sicol Q~[flrtcrly(Su~nrner1993),Oxford Univ. Press, Jo~~nials Dept., 200 Madisoii Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016.
Trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-91) helped create the "cool" sound in jazz during the late 1940s, and later in 11is career he was a pioneer of jazz- rock "fusion" and other jazz idioms. Most crit- ics acknowledge Davis's importance as a cre- ative force in jazz, but in assessing him as a per- former they are made uneasy the "mis- takesJ'-the...
F. Jack Hurley, in History of Pliotogrn;diy (Autumn 1993),Taylor & Francis Ltd., 4 John St., London WC1N ZET, United Kingdom.
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" and Arthur Rothstein's "Dust Storm" are among the most powerful images of American life during the Great Depression. Those photos were among more than 272,000 taken the small photographic section of the U.S. government's Resettlement Administration, established in 1935, and its successor, the Farm Security Administration...
Lange's middle-class audience."
The danger in all this slanted scholarship, Hurley says, is that the historical con- text in which the memorable FSA images were created will be lost. "If we allow that to happen we will have done damage to the images and to American history."
"Dust Storm, Cimnrron County, Oklahoma," Arthur Rothstein.
as a direct order to produce untruthful images for the government. He ignored, Hurley says, the con- text andthe humor in Stryker's comment....
a variety of means of the ideas, attitudes, practices, and habits of temperament and sensibility that are implicit in his master term, 'culture.' " Salvation, Arnold said, was "a harmonious perfection only to be won cultivating many sides in us."
These recommendations could be given 'such a high spiritual priority," Marcus points out, only on the presupposition that revealed religion, specifically Christianity, was no longer "the ultimate authority or standard of values...
Carol Lancaster and "The Failure of Democratic Reform in Angola and Zaire" Keith Somerville, in Survival (Autumn1993),International Inst. for Strategic Studies, 23 Tavistock St., London WC2E 7NQ.
Progress toward democracy in the 47 African nations south of the Sahara has been widespread, if uneven, in recent years. Fifteen African nations can now be regarded as den~ocracies, notes Georgetown University's Lancaster, an adviser to the U.S. Agency for International Develop- ment, and at...