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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Could you please explain to me why the National Youth Science Camp, where 100 of the nation's brightest male students gather [July 17], is for boys only? If West Virginia really wants to improve its backward image, it had better start preparing an answer to that question...
This is a unique institution called the National Youth Science Camp, where 100 of the nation's brightest 16-to 18-year-old male science students (average IQ: 130-plus) gather for a free three weeks of serious talk and relaxation. West Virginia originally founded the camp in the Monongahela National Forest, about 50 miles from the nearest sizable town, partly to enhance the state's backward image (annual cost: $80,000). After ten summers, the 15-acre camp has become a nationally respected meeting ground for young talent. IBM lends computer equipment; the nearby National Radio Astronomy...
...summer TV season is not wholly a faded festival of reruns. Sometimes the networks use it to examine talent on approval, testing prospects for possible recall during the dark days of winter. The newest and brightest experiment of this type is CBS's Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show, a slick, soulful variety series now subbing for the Carol Burnett Show...
...islands of stars. Since the 1930s, for example, astronomers at California's Hale Observatories have photographed some 200 extragalactic supernovae. What makes Kowal's supernova significant to astronomers is that it occurred in a relatively nearby galaxy-only 10 million light-years away. * It is the brightest exploding star sighted in 35 years. Moreover, it seems to have been spotted only days after it reached maximum intensity, or at the height of the star's death throes. Thus astronomers have a rare opportunity to study at close range the mechanisms of stellar death...
...that is true, Harvard should be grooming its junior Faculty members for tenured positions. Instead, Harvard is an export factory which supplies the nation's universities with many of their brightest young professors. As its budding scholars fall off the vine, Harvard goes on looking for "the best man available anywhere in the world" to fill each opening. That is why this year, for instance, the History Department failed to renew the contracts of three junior Faculty members and extended futile offers to distinguished European historians who replied that they like it where they...