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...changes in the Natural Sciences program points up two problems that have confronted the University since the beginning of General Education: how to show the scientific specialist a view of science as a whole; and how to give scientific amatuers an understanding of the history, philosophy, and method behind atom bombs and polio vaccines. The specific recommendations of the Council, however, seem calculated more to dramatize the problems than to offer workable solutions...
...cold war the appearance of sweet reasonableness sometimes can be as powerful a weapon as a supply of atom bombs. Last week, at the Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Communist China's Premier Chou En-lai dropped a psychological blockbuster. After purring about peace and understanding all week long, Chou announced that the Chinese Communists were willing to confer with the U.S. on the question of "relaxing tension" in the Formosa area (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Pittsburgh, Westinghouse Electric Corp., which is already building a nuclear reactor for the world's first atomic power plant and a $2,000,000 atomic research center, announced a new plan to make Pittsburgh the "atomic capital of the world" by building a second $6,000,000 lab to do research and development work on peacetime uses for the atom...
...process of working out bilateral agreements under which it will supply some atomic material and information to Great Britain, Canada, Belgium, Italy and other countries. Some of the agreements should be ready to go to Congress for approval this summer. Something is also "ready to pop," according to Patterson, in the U.N., where the U.S. has been trying to create an international agency for peacetime development of the atom, in spite of vigorous Soviet noncooperation...
...believe that God meant us to find the atom. Admittedly, we are wrestling with the greatest alteration in man's relation with Nature since the upheaval at the time of the Garden of Eden. But his fundamental relation with God has not changed one whit. The same trial that tested the first man in Eden, and every man since, challenges us in the atomic problem. It is the exercise of choice, the dangerous freedom to use God-given power for good or ill. I do not mean for a moment that science is wrong, but only...