Word: berkeley
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...little is known about how the mind works, and less about how the computer might change that process. The neurological researches of Mark Rosenzweig and his colleagues at Berkeley indicate :hat animals trained to learn and assimilate information develop heavier cerebral cortices, more glial cells and bigger nerve cells. But does the computer really stimulate the brain's activity or, by doing so much of its work, permit it to go slack...
...universities and government agencies, and 1,800 students in Philadelphia and Camden schools. It has succeeded in sending nearly two-thirds of its graduates on to math-or science-related college programs. In California, MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement), based at the Lawrence Hall of Science on the Berkeley campus, is also designed to encourage minority students with weekly study groups and summer enrichment programs. So far, it has sent 90% of its students to college...
...Pentagon retorts that incredibly precise timing would be needed: the missiles would have to explode within a millionth of a second of one another to avoid Fratricide-a capability, U.S. intelligence sources optimistically estimate, that will not be achieved by the Soviets for at least ten years. Says Berkeley Physicist Charles Townes, a key Pentagon adviser: "The Soviets are resourceful guys, fully capable of developing ways to counter Dense Pack sooner than anybody expects...
...yanked by Southern Black civil rights workers, began to unravel the myth of a just society for thousands of white students in the North. This revelation, not Vietnam, inspired SDS to pull away from its democratic-socialist parent organization. Starting with a few hundred members scattered from Harvard to Berkeley, the group gradually constructed a platform which linked the students' own impatience with mainstream Democratic politics to the suffering of the non-white and the destitute. In its 1962 manifesto, The Port Huron Statement, SDS zeroed in on the links between the corporate world, the government and the university which...
...Russian Research Center to promote study in Soviet history, politics, economics and literature. In 1958, the year after the Soviets' triumphant launch of Sputnik, Congress passed the National Defense Education Act, which provided Government funds for Soviet-studies programs at such universities as Washington, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, California (Berkeley), Indiana and Stanford. By 1970, however, Government and foundation funds began drying up. Between 1967 and 1976, federal contracts for all foreign affairs research dropped from $40 million to less than $20 million. Détente with the U.S.S.R., a national preoccupation with Viet Nam and the Middle East...