Passage Nine(Holmes’ Knowledge)His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carly
Passage Eleven (Superconducting Materials)The stone age, The Iron Age. Entire epochs have been named for materials. So what to call the decades ahead? The choice will be tough. Welcome to the age of s
Passage Twelve (We Should All Grow Fat and Be Happy)Here’s a familiar version of the boy-meets-girl situation. A young man has at last plucked up courage to invite a dazzling young lady out to dinne
Passage Thirteen (The Neutrality of American in the Early World War II)The establishment of the Third Reich influenced events in American history by starting a chain of events which culminated in war
Passage Fourteen(Antarctica and Environment) Antarctica has actually become a kind of space station - a unique observation post for detecting important changes in the world’s environment. Remote fro
Passage Sixteen (Mules)Although the top men in smuggling business must work together, most of a syndicate’s small fry, especially the mules, know only their immediate contacts.If caught there is lit
Passage Fifteen (Contribution of Coeducation)Imagining being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which consisted only of members of own sex. How would you react? Unless there w
Passage Seventeen (On the President’s Program)President Arling has put his long awaited economic restructuring program before the Congress. It provides a coordinated program of investment credits, r
Passage Eighteen (Strictly Ban smoking)If you smoke and you still don’t believe that there’s a definite link between smoking and bronchial troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, then you are cer
Passage Nineteen (TV’s Harmfulness)Yes, but what did we use to do before there was television? How often we hear statements like this! Television hasn’t been with us all that long, but we are alre