Word: coring
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Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif, is still too young to have much tradition. What it has, as it prepares to start its second school year this month, is 118 students (7 girls), 17 faculty members plus a half-completed campus, built with funds whose core is a gift of more than $2,000,000 from the widow and family of Harvey Seeley Mudd, a California mining engineer who died three years...
...such small plants began, as the 210-ton Argonne Low Power Reactor went critical, i.e., began a controlled chain reaction, at the Atomic Energy Commission testing grounds in Idaho Falls. The Argonne reactor is a natural-circulation boiling water reactor: it produces steam simply and directly in its core instead of in a separate heat exchanger leading to the turbogenerator, and has an air-cooled condenser that drastically cuts down the total water needed. Full capacity: 3,000 thermal kw. -enough to light 260 average homes or (if used as radiator steam) to heat...
...earth's magnetic field is now known not to come from a permanent-magnet core. A probe may help confirm the current theory that the revolving earth and its molten metal interior form a giant dynamo, generating electric currents and thus magnetism. If the probe reports that the moon itself has no magnetic field, it will make the terrestrial-dynamo theory seem more credible...
...Core of the problem for the Foreign Service and for the next generation of journalists, pay-later tourists, and businessmen abroad: 56.4% of U.S. high schools, according to the report, do not teach even one foreign language. Less than 15% of public high school students are enrolled in a modern foreign-language course (almost none study ancient languages). Most take French or Spanish; rare are courses in Russian, Chinese, German, Italian or Portuguese. Even students exposed to languages may not take on enough ability to read a menu. Weighting the odds against the student, according to the report: ill-taught...
...here is the core of a truly superb Shakespearean repertory company. I am not unaware of the Shakespearean achievements at the Antioch Festival in Ohio and elsewhere, but the sun is shining most brightly over Stratford, Connecticut. If great things are done for Shakespeare, they seem certain to be done here. Much progress has been made, much remains to be made. The people involved must not slacken for a moment. We must support them to the limit and say, "Get on with the job." They in turn must do just that; for that is now their duty as well...