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tarded, often autistic; six out of seven are males. Most excel at "right-brained" activi- ties, such as music and art. Other savants are "left-brained" mathematical wizards or "lightning calculators" who can, for exam- ple, instantly determine whether Christ- mas fell on a Sunday in 1654.
Researchers for more than a century have sought the causes of this rare endow- ment of gift and affliction-without great success. Recently, says Treffert, Harvard n...
the U.S. utilities' reluctance, until recently, to co- operate among themselves to exchange in-
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formation, improve equipment, and assess performance. If the U.S. nuclear industry is to succeed, the authors believe, the worst must learn from the best.
The Desert "The Myth of the Marching Desert" Bill Forse, in The New Scientist (Feb. 4, 1989), Oakfield House, 35 Perrymount Rd. Doesn't Grow Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH 16 3DH, England.
The headlines warn...
the U.S. utilities' reluctance, until recently, to co- operate among themselves to exchange in-
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formation, improve equipment, and assess performance. If the U.S. nuclear industry is to succeed, the authors believe, the worst must learn from the best.
The Desert "The Myth of the Marching Desert" Bill Forse, in The New Scientist (Feb. 4, 1989), Oakfield House, 35 Perrymount Rd. Doesn't Grow Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH 16 3DH, England.
The headlines warn...
the nine states that have
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passed deposit laws requiring the return of plastic soda bottles. Such obligatory pro- grams ensure 70 to 90 percent participa- tion rates consumers; only 10 to 30 per- cent participate in the purely voluntary recycling efforts of towns and cities.
Collecting, sorting, and reprocessing plastics remains an expensive proposition. But the plastics industry, fearful of legisla- tive efforts to curb the use of plastics, is working hard on these problems. It...
1973, Duke El- lington could remark with pleasure that it had become "difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Al- ley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between classical music and jazz."
Mirk's Heresy "Mir6's Paradox: What Happened After 'the Death of Painting'" Hilton Kramer, in The New Criterion (Jan. 1989), 850 Sev-enth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019.
"I want to assassinate" painting, Joan Mir6 in his devotion to...
the art world, Kramer la- work. Today, when the latest self-pro- ments, Mid's method has fallen into lesser claimed "assassin" finds himself quickly hands and become a "shallow orthodoxy."
The Digitized "The Electronic Word: Literary study and the Digital Revolu- tion" Richard A. Lanham, in New Literary History (WinterWord 1989), Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 701 W. 40th St., Ste. 275,
Baltimore. Md. 2121 1.
Despite the onslaught of television the printed word is s...
the art world, Kramer la- work. Today, when the latest self-pro- ments, Mid's method has fallen into lesser claimed "assassin" finds himself quickly hands and become a "shallow orthodoxy."
The Digitized "The Electronic Word: Literary study and the Digital Revolu- tion" Richard A. Lanham, in New Literary History (WinterWord 1989), Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 701 W. 40th St., Ste. 275,
Baltimore. Md. 2121 1.
Despite the onslaught of television the printed word is s...
one road. After a 1985 uprising in the township of Langa, South African security forces abolished the township and forcibly relocated thousands of residents.
During the early 1960s, notes Herbst, the revolutionary African National Con- gress (ANC) renounced popular insurrec- tion as futile. Nelson Mandela warned that it would lead to strife among blacks. In fact, perhaps one third of the 2,600 blacks who were victims of political violence be- tween 1984 and November 1987 were killed other blacks....
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new tax on workingmen's beer.
Sweden trod much the same path when it created its social security system in 1913, notes Baldwin. Only later would Scandinavia's socialists take credit for (and build upon) measures which many of them had in fact opposed.
Scandinavia's welfare states, says Bald- win, are not the product of "supposedly unique Scandinavian social virtues or. . .socialism's heroic march in these most quintessentially petty bourgeois of European nations. The origins of virtue...
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A. Teixeira, in Public OW-ion (Jan./Feb. 1989), 1150 17th St. N.W., Washington, D.C.
After Election Day 1988, the Reverend Jesse Jackson declared that Governor Mi- chael Dukakis could have triumphed a "margin of enthusiasm" if only he had in- spired poor and minority voters to go to the polls in greater numbers.
Similar sentiments were voiced by many Democrats after George Bush's 54-46 per- cent victory. And, at first glance, says Teixeira, a public opinion specialist at Abt Associates, t...