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...Saturday morning sectioning meeting has become another monster in the University's Freshman Week array. Happily, this meeting has a worthwhile purpose: to assign students to sections in some elementary languages and mathematics courses which have no lectures...
...shouting has died down for the moment, and it seems that Boston will get its space center after all. Both Houses of Congress have in recent days passed space authorization bills which assign the National Aeronautics and Space Agency's Electronic Research Center to the Kennedys' home town...
...Best? The dispute has made a shambles of two COMECON meetings in recent weeks, and may force Moscow to call a summit meeting of party secretaries to resolve it. Even then, COMECON's efforts to assign production will face years of delay. Methods of figuring production costs vary so drastically from member to member that no one is sure who makes which product the best. "We cannot check the calculations of our partner, nor translate our calculations into language which is comprehensible to him," complains a distracted Polish economist. No more direct evidence is needed of COMECON...
...answers for the purpose of teaching, as well as testing. It is well-known that students often learn from answering questions on examinations, but hour exams and finals are scanty teaching instrument. Why not incorporate the asking of insightful questions into the regular procedure? Specifically, the instructor might regularly assign questions which deal with fundamental aspects of the course material and which are designed to stimulate insight, but which can be--and are required to be--answered in a small number of words, ranging perhaps from 25 to 150 (An example, concerning Plato's Republic: "What is the relation between...
...Credit Corp. loan on it at the support price. Later the farmer may repay the loan, reclaim his crop, and sell it on the open market. Or, if he finds that the market price is lower than the support price, he can simply keep that loan and, in exchange, assign the stored crop to the CCC. That is what happens to about two-thirds of the stuff on which farmers get CCC loans-the Government, and thereby the taxpayer, gets stuck with...