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...Boulder, Colo. Sir: Jack is the next of kin to the old medicines (I hesitate to call them snake oil) which were sold from wagons to people. It was claimed they could cure TB, baldness, hives, and any other affliction on earth. Undoubtedly Jack has created the greatest mass of hot air since Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lamp...
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...Boulder, Colo., after inquiring politely, "Have you been taken care of. sir?", Manager Claude Meyers of the new Safeway supermarket was told "I sure have" by an unidentified customer who thereupon fled with a stolen...
Last week members of the American Institute of Biological Sciences opened a six-week meeting at the University of Colorado in Boulder to put some life into the study of living things by revising the high school curriculum from amoeba to zygote. With an initial $738,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, which has already spent more than $8,000,000 to upgrade high school physics, math and chemistry, the biologists have no illusions about producing high schools full of biology majors. But they do hope to increase the percentage considerably, and at the very least give every youngster...
Three Ideas. For a starter, the educators at Boulder will remove the dead weight of words from biology. They estimate that a first-year biology student must absorb more strange-and unpronounceable-new words than he does in any first-year foreign language course. Then they plan to organize the facts of biology around a few key ideas so that the students will get a better grasp of the whole. "We want biology," says Zoologist John A. Moore of Columbia University, "not plants plus animals, each in splendid isolation, as is so often done in many courses. A Cook...