26. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out, "A technologist thinks about objects that can not be  reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions: they are dealt with in his mind by a visual, nonverbal process...The designer and the inventor.., are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist".

27. Robert Fulton once wrote, "The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheel, etc, like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea".

28. In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. He describes their programs and, tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise.

29. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: "This book stands for reason itself." And so it does-and all wound be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.

30. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia''s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.

31. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the  Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back.

32. In Australia- where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.

33. There are, of course, exceptions. Small--minded officials, rude waiters, and ill mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves comment.

34. We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.

35. Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant with drawal  symptoms when the substance is discontinued.

36. "Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?" Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week. "You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?"

37. "The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column'', "lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and  expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be..."

38. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month''s stockholders'' meeting, Levin  asserted that "music is not the cause of society''s ills" and even cited his son, a teacher in  the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.

39. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as "steering the economy to a soft landing" of "a touch on the brakes" ， makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth.

40. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America''s, have little productive slack.

41. The most thrilling explanation is, unfortunately, a little defective. Some economists argue that powerful structural changes in the world have upended the old economic models that  were based upon the historical link between growth and inflation.

42. The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left-all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.

43. New ways of organizing the workplace--all that re-engineering and downsizing--are only  one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other  factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology, and  investment in education and training,

44. His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied re-engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability.

45. Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as "The Flight from Science and Reason" , held in New York City in 1995, and "Science in the Age of (Mis)  information, which assembled last June near Buffalo.

46. A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the antiscience tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.

47. The ''true enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrllch of Stanford University, a pioneer of  environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the  depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial growth.

48. This development--and its strong implication for US politics and economy in years ahead--has enthroned the South as America''s most densely populated region for the first time in the history of the nation''s head counting.

49. Often they choose--and still are choosing--somewhat colder climates such as Oregon, Idaho and Alaska in order to escape smog crime and other plagues of urbanization in the Golden State.

50. As a result, California''s growth rate dropped during the 1970''s, to 18.5 percent--little more  than two thirds the 1960''s growth figure and considerably below that of other Western states.