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In any civilization, an age can be measured by whether or not the best and brightest are applying their talent and wealth to make that civilization work better, to inculcate patriotism, to build and improve institutions, and improve the lives of their fellow citizens.
Joe Lonsdale • Jefferson and America's Lost Idea: Natural Aristocracy
Since 1980, when the victims’ rights movement took off, higher-education spending in California has decreased by 13 percent, while investment in prisons has grown 436 percent; the state now spends far more money on prisons than it does on colleges and universities.
Rachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
THE MOON IS DOWN, TO A GOD UNKNOWN, CANNERY ROW, THE RED PONY, TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY, THE PEARL
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savage than the Americans?
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
William (Willi) F. Unsoeld, Ph.D.: 36, Corvallis, Oregon; Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Oregon State University, on leave as deputy Peace Corps representative in Nepal; Climbing leader.
Thomas F. Hornbein • Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition
The most ambitious publishing effort of his career was launched, a work of ten volumes encompassing the entire natural history of the United States. It was his “endeavor to make myself understood by all.”