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General information and editorial notes
News and Notes: Activities at the Entomological Societies' meeting Head of Biological Survey to retire Summary of the Scientific Committee meeting Project Update: Pending publications Dubious awards: Sashes and such Canadian Perspectives: Life-cycle Types in the Arctic From the canoe to the microscope: arctic mayflies and stoneflies List of Requests for Material or Information
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The loser is always suspicious. The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings. The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition. There are two kinds of people: those who don’t know and those who don’t know they don’t know.
Words The present age shrinks from precision and ‘understands’ only soft woolly words which really have no particular meaning, like ‘cultural heritage’ or ‘the exigent dictates of modern traffic needs’. The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it’s also full of fourth-rate readers. I read part of it all the way through. I took a speed-reading course where you run your finger down the middle of the page and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It’s about Russia.
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