Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three times as many engineers as the U.S., and 59% of its 2,000,000-odd students in higher education are after science degrees. The 17-year-old graduate of the best of Russia's ten-year secondary schools is reckoned to be at least two years ahead of his American counterpart in scientific attainment; he has had ten years of mathematics, six years of biology, five years of physics, four of chemistry. Westerners have found that even children's toys point up the stress on science: while dolls and tin soldiers are shabbily made, such gadgets...
...possibility is "chemical adultery." Bacteria can already be subjected to "directed mutation" by means of a chemical, DNA (desoxyribosenucleic acid), extracted from the chromosomes. When this practice is extended to humans, certain hereditary characteristics of one person can be transferred to the reproductive cells of another person. Looking far ahead, Rostand anticipates a time "when each human infant could receive a standard DNA that would confer the most desirable physical and intellectual characteristics. Such children will not be the offspring of a particular couple, but of the entire species...
...with a $4,500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. President of the Educational Facilities Laboratories, Inc., announced this week: 48-year-old Harold Gores, superintendent of the top-rated Newton, Mass, schools. The goal, says Gores, is to cut building cost, so that "facilities needed in the decade ahead need not gobble up all the available money for education. The teacher is really much more important than the bricks." The center will give advice, and from time to time it will finance experimental construction that would be economically too risky for schools to attempt alone. The center will...
...December 1768 the first two sections of the encyclopedia were ready, as pamphlets (cost: sixpence each on plain paper, eightpence for a fancy edition); with the income from them and backing obtained ahead of time from subscribers, succeeding sections and finally the first bound volume were published...
...honest little dark bay colt that made his reputation running second to Tim Tarn in both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, finally ran in front all the way. Without Calumet's killer to catch him in the last furlong, Lincoln Road fought off determined opposition to stay ahead of the field from flagfall to finish in Garden State's $59,100 Jersey Stakes, whipped Ada L. Rice's Talent Show by a safe length and a quarter...