Susan Fra- Fading MBAs? ker, in Fortune (Dec. 12, 1983), 541 North
Fairbanks Ct., Chicago, 111.6061 1.
A young lad or lass with a fresh MBA (master of business administra- tion) diploma has long been widely regarded as a shoo-in for the corpo- rate fast track. But Fraker, a Fortune editor, finds that MBAs have lost some of their luster.
Big Business does not like to admit that it is changing its ways, but the fact is that corporations are hiring fewer MBAs. General Electric, for example, trimmed...
first becoming masters of the shop floor.
"The Myth of U.S. Deindustrialization"
Robert Z. Lawrence, in Challenge
(Nov.-Dec. 1983), 80 Business Park Dr.,
U.S. Industry Armonk, N.Y. 10504.
Across the United States, dozens of steel mills, auto plants, and "smokestack" factories of all kinds have closed. Yet despite widespread fears that America is "deindustrializing," contends Lawrence, a Brook- ings Institution economist, U.S. manufacturers are actually outper-...
Why the Immigrant "The Crisis in Immigration Policy" by
Edwin Harwood, in Journal of Contempo-
rary Studies (Fall 1983), Transaction Peri- Door Is Ajar odicals Consortium, Dept. 541, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
Immigration to the United States is nearing the record levels of the early 1900s, and public opinion surveys show that Americans increasingly favor tighter controls. Yet Washington is doing little to stem the tide.
The sheer number of immigrants entering...
Richard W. Flint, in The Quarterly Journal of the
Of the Circus Library of Congress (Summer 1983), Su-perintendent of Documents, U.S. Govern- ment Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.
As an Iowa farm boy during the 1870s, novelist Hamlin Garland re- garded the wonders of a traveling circus as the equivalent of "the vi- sions of the Apocalypse." To most Americans today, the circus is largely a relic of "simpler times."
In ancient Rome, a "circus" was an arena...
rail allowed touring circuses to bypass the smallest towns
and to transport a vast array of props, trained animals, and human per-
formers. (Rail travel had its drawbacks: Jumbo the African Elephant
was tragically killed a locomotive in 1885. An undaunted P. T. Bar-
num promptly put Jumbo's skeleton on display.) The Sells Brothers
Circus, though by no means the largest, employed 500 men and women
and logged 13,852 miles on its 1895 tour. Mark Twain's Huck Finn de-
scribed the circus of this...
concentrating on the needs of children, Head Start avoids the "stigma" of welfare dependency, and it responds to blacks' "unique claims on the American conscience" without relying on racial quotas or other de- vices. And it is one of the few federal programs that manages to tap the creative energies of the communities it serves.
"Tecumseh, The Shawnee Prophet, and Tecumseh and American History: A Reassessment" His Brother R. David Edmunds, in The Western His-
torical...
Bonafede, a National Journal correspondent, gen- erally throw up their hands at nost of the major complaints lodged against campaign coverage.
Charges academics that tkv press focuses too much attention on front-runners and incumbent presidents, says the Washington Post's Peter Silberman, ignore "the way of American politics." Portraying the campaign as a "horse race," many editors believe, is the only way to keep readers and viewers interested as the weeks wear on. Similarly,...
Michael J.When Newsmen Robinson. in Washington Journalism Re- ~~~k at Newsmenview (~ec.1983)' 253 Wisconsin Ave.
N.W., Suite 442, Washington, D.C. 20007.
U.S. journalists are often criticized for being too "negative" about the people and institutions they describe. They may be, says Robin- son, director of the Media Analysis Project at George Washington University, but at least they are consistent: These days, journalists are also hard on one another.
Robinson surveyed network TV news...
Michael J.When Newsmen Robinson. in Washington Journalism Re- ~~~k at Newsmenview (~ec.1983)' 253 Wisconsin Ave.
N.W., Suite 442, Washington, D.C. 20007.
U.S. journalists are often criticized for being too "negative" about the people and institutions they describe. They may be, says Robin- son, director of the Media Analysis Project at George Washington University, but at least they are consistent: These days, journalists are also hard on one another.
Robinson surveyed network TV news...
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"Remembrance of Things Partly" byThe Anatomy Wray Herbert, in Science News (Dec. 10,
1983), 231 West Center St., Marion, Ohio
f Memory 43302.
"H.M.," as he is known to scientists, underwent surgery in 1953 in which much of the hippocampus region of his lower brain was removed to stop his epileptic seizures. In a freak accident with a fencing foil in 1960,another man, "N.A.," suffered an injury to the left side o...