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...mammals were still furtive, slinking creatures, the mighty dinosaur, king of the reptiles, ruled the earth. Then about 60 million years ago, the last of the dinosaurs vanished. The mammals inherited the earth and have bossed it ever since. Some geologists believe that the dinosaurs were too specialized to adapt themselves to a sudden change of climate. The trouble with the theory has always been that there is no way to prove that the climate really changed. Last week the University of Chicago's Dr. Harold Urey told a Los Angeles meeting of the American Association for the Advancement...
...section men will have to adapt themselves from a full credit course to a half course which will extend throughout the year. The new course will be related to the G.E. program in the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences...
...problems. After fifteen years as an investment counsellor and industrial relations export, Cabot decided that the key to the failures he had seen was a lack of "education for life." It was at the college level, Cabot thought, that problem-solving skills should be acquired. So he decided to adapt the techniques he had learned over the years to teaching students how to look at their experiences critically. Now a lecturer in General Education, Cabot is director of the Human Relations course, Social Sciences...
...democracies have disappointingly little to offer in opposition. Our State Department is stepping up its program rapidly and beginning to adapt its methods to local conditions. But unless a bigger and better job is done, by U.S. private enterprise as well as government, there is clear danger that we shall again, as in China, lose the war of ideas - and the support of the illiterate millions whom we have not yet learned to talk to in ways they understand." Cordially yours...
...like the animals, has a built-in mechanism of infinite complexity and delicacy to help him adapt himself to hunger, heat, cold, exhaustion or terror. Normally the mechanism is self-regulating (like a heating plant with a thermostat). But sometimes, Selye says, it gets out of kilter. Then the body either overdoes the job of adapting itself to stress, underdoes it, or simply does it wrong. What follows may be disease or even death. Doubtless this has always been true, but it seems to be happening oftener now that man has built himself a civilization which subjects his old-fashioned...