The Only True Aging Is The Erosion

One Day At Princeton, I Noticed There Were Dead Birds On The Pavement Between The Campus Buildings, Where Very Large Trees Were. It Turns Out It Was Ddt. At The Time, In The Early '50s, No One Thought Ddt Was Dangerous To Anybody But Insects. I Went Down To The Daily Princetonian, The College Paper, And Tried To Persuade Them To Do A Story. They Said, "naw, There's Nothing Wrong." But That Taught Me A Very Important Lesson. One, That Newspaper People Can Get Very Jaded. Second, That You Might Know Something, Like An Expert Chemistry Professor, You Are Not Going To Apply What You Know.

The Common Belief That Coaches Must Be Abusive To Be Successful Is A Myth. Research Shows That If You Find A Task Fun, You'll Perform Better. If More Coaches Took . . . A Golden Rule Approach To Coaching, Treating Their Players The Way They Themselves Would Like To Be Treated, Fewer Athletes Would Drop Out Of Sports In Their Teens, And More Athletes At Every Level Would Be Happier And More Satisfied.

Companies Like Enron Have Learned That Small Investments In Endowing Chairs, Sponsoring Research Programs Or Hiring Moonlighting Professors Can Return Big Payoffs In Generating Books, Reports, Articles, Testimony And Other Materials To Push For And Rationalize Public Policy Positions That Damage The Public Interest But Benefit Corporate Bottomlines.

Information Is The Currency Of Democracy. It's Denial Must Always Be Suspect.

Nuclear Power Must Be Dealt With Irrationally. . . . Nuclear Plants Are Carcinogens. Let's Get That Story Out. . . . Their Lies Will Catch Up To Them. We Need Endless Chernobyl Reminders.