Word: absorbing
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Three Ideas. For a starter, the educators at Boulder will remove the dead weight of words from biology. They estimate that a first-year biology student must absorb more strange-and unpronounceable-new words than he does in any first-year foreign language course. Then they plan to organize the facts of biology around a few key ideas so that the students will get a better grasp of the whole. "We want biology," says Zoologist John A. Moore of Columbia University, "not plants plus animals, each in splendid isolation, as is so often done in many courses. A Cook...
Aiming at the 5,000 meters in the Olympics, Beatty had left North Carolina last October for Santa Clara Valley, Calif., where he could absorb the punishing training of Mihaly Igloi, the expert Hungarian coach who defected to the U.S. after the 1956 Olympics. At 5 ft. 6 in., 128 Ibs., Beatty last week seemed to be taking two bustling steps to every smooth stride of the 6-ft. 1-in., 155-lb. Burleson as he followed Coach Igloi's orders to lead his rival through the first lap in the brisk time...
...spent $3,700,000 to set up the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, which is widely regarded as only a smokescreen for the industry. But fortnight ago two reports came out from medical groups partly financed by the committee, holding that 1) smoking taxes damaged hearts, and 2) tobacco users absorb 90% of the nicotine to which they are exposed...
...leader with scarcely veiled contempt. "I do not know why you attach any importance whatsoever to what Mr. Nkrumah says," he recently snapped to touring British reporters. In Togoland, popular Premier Sylvanus Olympio is even blunter. "The man must be crazy," he says. "Does he really think he can absorb us with his puny bunch of tin soldiers and those two minesweepers he calls a navy...
...barely passed in history, but he did absorb a few ideas: the American revolutionary slogan, "No Taxation Without Representation," echoed in his mind, and he wrote an enthusiastic paper on Napoleon-"Here was a man who defied the whole world." Later, at the Holy Ghost College (high school) at Mangu, he learned about Abraham Lincoln and Booker T. Washington. But the missionaries discouraged his political questions and, irritated, he abandoned his plans to enter a seminary, forming a bitterness toward the church that he retains to this day, though he still considers himself Catholic ("My disagreements are not with...