Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent programs. As long as the College emphasizes grades, any portion of formal education which tries to disregard them will suffer unless it is exceptionally well-planned and intriguing or the student displays a remarkable degree of independence. "If you are in a system that includes grades, you commit harakiri if you try to do without them," comments Harold C. Martin, director of General Education...
...fuels (TIME, April 1), in which it is joined with hydrogen or other elements to generate infinitely greater power with less volume than present fuels.* The U.S. Defense Department has already invested $100 million in high-energy fuel development. U.S. Borax & Chemical is negotiating with top chemical firms to commit part of its borax production (70% of U.S. output) to making high-energy fuels. Should boron become the key element in the fuels of the future, the industry estimates that demand for borax, which has already doubled in ten years, would jump from its present 1,000,000 tons annually...
Probing Mind. In Mexico City, Rafael Duenas tried unsuccessfully to commit suicide by stabbing himself with an ice pick after writing a note: "I killed myself to see what it felt like...
...scientists who disagree most sharply with Commissioner Libby are the geneticists. At the University of California, Geneticist Curt Stern, onetime member of the ABC's biological advisory commit tee, says of his colleagues: "Every one of them thinks that damage is being done." Dr. Stern thinks that Libby should stick to his own field (physics and chemis try). About the statements by physicists that bomb tests are safe, Dr. Stern says: "These statements are not based on scientific principle." Starting with Dr. Libby's own statement that fallout has increased back ground radiation by only...
...decisions for Christ at Graham's meetings are not just an emotional experience. People who make decisions will be taken immediately into the care of the churches, and we very definitely expect to gather the fruits of the Billy Graham campaign by permanent organization, by teaching discipline. To commit your life to Christ, as these people will do, is to surrender to Christ, but the important growth follows after that. It is not the end but the beginning. I say 'So what?' to such attacks...