Stephen White, in The New Statesman (Sept. 7, in Taganrog 1979), 10 Great Turnstile, London WCiV 7HJ, England.
More than half the Soviet population can now tune in Western radio broadcasts. An estimated 20 percent or more of Soviet city-dwellers regularly follow the BBC, Voice of America, and West Germany's Deutsche Welle. This access is putting a strain on the Soviet domestic propaganda apparatus, says White, a University of Glasgow Sovietologist.
A series of studies reported last May Pravda...
Stephen White, in The New Statesman (Sept. 7, in Taganrog 1979), 10 Great Turnstile, London WCiV 7HJ, England.
More than half the Soviet population can now tune in Western radio broadcasts. An estimated 20 percent or more of Soviet city-dwellers regularly follow the BBC, Voice of America, and West Germany's Deutsche Welle. This access is putting a strain on the Soviet domestic propaganda apparatus, says White, a University of Glasgow Sovietologist.
A series of studies reported last May Pravda...
the late '60s, however, advertisers had pulled out of the TV production business, except for soap operas and occasional specials. Two cost factors were responsible, explains Kiechel. First was the "seemingly inexorable rise" in the price of commercial air time, which discouraged the typical advertiser from betting all his dollars on one show. Second was the increase in the cost of producing programs. Ad- vertisers responded with "package buyingu-the practice of purchasing commercial...
a 3 to 2 margin. Blacks are more apt than whites to be evangelical. They make up roughly 10 percent of the population but 15 percent of the evangelicals.
While liberal Protestant denominations such as the United Presbyter- ian and United Methodist churches have been losing 75,000 to 100,000 members annually during the '70s, conservative evangelical churches like the Pentecostal and the Assembly of God are growing rapidly. Gal- lup suggests that with their large numbers of youthful adherents (13...
Mar- tin E. Martv. in The Journal of Relieion Tolerance (Oct. 1979),university of Chicago press,
5801 Ellis Ave., Chicago, 111. 60637.
If Americans take their religion seriously, how can they tolerate rival faiths? Tocqueville had a simple answer in the 19th century: American religious beliefs were either shallow or irrational.
Marty, a historian at the University of Chicago Divinity School, dis- agrees. In part, he says, tolerance stemmed from a tactical judgment made early American religious...
R. Jeffrey Smith, in Sci-ence (Dec. 14, 1979)- 1515 Massachusetts
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As the 1980s dawn, the U.S. space program is beset with problems. The space shuttle, the No. 1 project of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is currently behind schedule (15 months) and way over cost projections. Budget-cutters in Congress are complaining, the public is disenchanted, and the agency's staff is divided.
The space shuttle has been a big...
Mitch Waldrop, in Chemica2 and in on a T~eory
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Particle physicists--who study the nucleus of the atom--are nearing an
understanding of the basic nature of matter and its building blocks,
says ~hemical and Engineering News correspondent Waldrop. Among
the pioneers are Harvard physicists Sheldon Glashow and Stephen
Weinberg, and Abdus Salam of the I...
Leonard Hayflick, in Scientific American Not in the Cards (Jan. 1980). 415 Madison Ave., New York,
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The only obstacles separating man from eternal life may well be disease and that mysterious pattern of decay known as "the aging process." But seekers after perpetual youth will probably be disappointed. Recent findings in cell biology suggest that aging is one of the body's normal functions, instead of a breakdown of those functions, writes Hayflick, a biologist at the Children's...
Stephen Jay Gould. in Natural History (Dec. 1979). ~ernbershi~ D&
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How can the process of scientific creativity be explained? Do discov- eries result from inductive reasoning, with scientists cautiously con- structing theories from a growing foundation of facts? Or are they the products of sudden, inexplicable strokes of genius the gifted few?
Gould, who teaches the history of science at Harvard, rejects both theories. Describing Charles Darwin's progress...
Stephen Jay Gould. in Natural History (Dec. 1979). ~ernbershi~ D&
Services, Box 6000, Moines, Iowa 50340.
How can the process of scientific creativity be explained? Do discov- eries result from inductive reasoning, with scientists cautiously con- structing theories from a growing foundation of facts? Or are they the products of sudden, inexplicable strokes of genius the gifted few?
Gould, who teaches the history of science at Harvard, rejects both theories. Describing Charles Darwin's progress...