Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down in the Mekong Delta, South Vietnamese infantrymen flushed another hidden hard-core Viet Cong unit into fierce fighting scarcely 40 miles southwest of Saigon. The Communists blasted back with machine guns and 57-mm recoilless rifles. Saigon soon concluded that it had a veteran Viet Cong battalion at bay, ordered in the largest number of Vietnamese troops to be used in a single battle in the long war to try to encircle and crush the Reds...
...heat. Its internal pressures are not large enough to cause the thermonuclear reactions that occur in a true star. And because less than 1% of Jupiter's mass consists of the heavier elements that are the source of the radioactive isotopes believed to heat the earth's core, radioactivity can contribute only a small fraction of the heat that is apparently generated in the interior...
Medical students spend seven to eight hours daily in lectures and laboratories. According to a member of the group, they do not have enough time outside of class to master and investigate the "core material that the lectures and labs present so badly...
...program, Wilcox hopes, will maximize those options--"give students a wide choice between different courses and outlooks." He plans to provide upper level "core" courses which will give concentrators in a particular field a generalized view of their entire area; and he hopes to continue the "terminal" lower level offerings for those who want to end their academic careers in a particular area with one course...
...Sciences will have to fulfill the prerequisites of, even if he does not plan to take, one upper-level Nat Sci course. In almost every case, the prerequisite will be a course in, or knowledge of, calculus. The new rules have one obvious advantage. They will help create a core of non-science concentrators well-trained in mathematics. Knowledge that such students exist might induce top-flight professors to teach sophisticated upper-level Gen Ed courses in the Natural Sciences. No other inducement has been able to accomplish this, and the CEP plan is worth...