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forests annually-a loss of 4,000 species
-per year if there are 2 million in the for- ests, and 40,000 if there are 20 million. Biodiversity is important for more than moral and aesthetic reasons, they say; it provides "enormous direct economic benefits. . . in the form of foods, medi- cines, and industrial products." To save "our fellow living creatures and ourselves in the long run," Ehrlich and Wilson pro- pose a radical worldwide ban on the devel- opment of "relatively...
any scientist's standard. To discard a drop, he had to find some mistake that would invalidate that datum." So he did. It
was not fraud, Goodstein says, just exercise of scien- tific judgment.
The fine line between "harmless fudging" and real fraud is an important one, Goodstein maintains. If the work, and everything that flowed from it, of New- ton, Millikan, Ptolemy, Hip- parchus of Rhodes, Galileo, John Dalton, and Gregor Mendel-all accused Broad and Wade of involve- ment in...
(Nov. 11, 1991), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Hailed many critics as authentic street
group N.W.A., or Niggers With Attitude,
music and damned by others for the same
was the best-selling record in America.
reason, rap music has taken the country by
In the past, notes Samuels, a Mellon Fel-
storm. Last summer, Niggaz4life, a celebra-
low at Princeton, black music (such as jazz
tion of gang rape and other violence b...
the Beastie Boys, a white punk rock band that Rubin transformed into a rap group.
But Samuels writes that Rubin and oth- ers soon found that "the more rappers were packaged as violent black criminals, the bigger their white audiences be- came. . . . Rap's appeal to whites rested in its evocation of an age-old image of black- ness: a foreign, sexually charged, and criminal underworld against which the norms of white society are defined, and, extension, through which they may be de- fied."...
Tom Bethell and "The Case for Shakespeare" Iwin Matus, in The Atlantic (Oct. 1991), 745 The Thing Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 021 16.
No .fewer 'than 58 individuals have been proposed at one time or another as the true author of the works attributed to Wil- liam Shakespeare (1 564-1 6 16) of Strat- ford. The anti-Stratfordians' current favor- ite is Edward de Vere (1550-1604), the 17th Earl of Oxford, a courtier who was a scholar, athlete, and poet. Journalist Tom Bethel1 contends the...
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The Play's "The Case for Oxford" Tom Bethell and "The Case for Shakespeare" by Iwin Matus, in The Atlantic (Oct. 1991), 745 The Thing Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 021 16.
No .fewer 'than 58 individuals have been proposed at one time or another as the true author of the works attributed to Wil- liam Shakespeare (1 564-1 6 16) of Strat- ford. The anti-Stratfordians' current favor- ite is Edward de Vere (1550-1604), the 17th Earl of Oxford, a courtier who was a scholar,...
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have found another way to protest: rock music with anti-establishment lyrics. Teen- age rock idol Cui Jian's latest album, "Jiejuey (Resolve), for example, begins with -these lines: "There are many prob- lems before us;/Therels no way to resolve them./But the fact that we have never had the chance/Is an even greater problem."
Its enthusiasm for defiant rock lyrics, Hooper says, is but one manifestation of the fact that the current generation of Chi- nese youth is openly...
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