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...radical's intuitive approach to Harvard admissions might prescribe a drastic cut in the number of preppies admitted to make more spaces available to minority students; the intuition of some of Aldrich's fellow alumni might lead to the selection of sons of men just like themselves--cultured, upper-crust, white. Aldrich neglects to name the brand of intuition he favors, but his rhetoric reveals his predilections. Discussing student opposition to master's choice, he writes, "The merest suspicion of discriminate assembly by students and housemasters raised the specter of an old Harvard of snobbish hauteur, the specter...
Even as Guatemala was struggling to recover from its awesome earthquake, geophysicists were trying to determine its cause. Their explanation: a battle between the gigantic plates that make up the lithosphere, or crust of the earth (TIME cover, Sept...
Underneath the earth's blasted crust, another group is trying to survive...
...most important signal, they said, was a change in the velocity of vibrations that pass through the earth's crust as a result of such disturbances as quakes, mining blasts or underground nuclear tests. Earth scientists have long known that tremors spread outward in two different types of seismic waves. P waves cause any rock in their path to compress and then expand in the same direction as the waves are traveling. S waves move the rock in a direction that is perpendicular to their path. Because P waves travel faster than S waves, they reach seismographs first...
...take these nuclear risks, the scientists advised the Federal Government to: 1) start a strict energy conservation program; 2) develop nonpolluting ways of mining and burning coal; and 3) work toward using "the energy from the sun, the winds, the tides and the heat in the earth's crust." All this is familiar stuff, but the large number of concerned scientists-about 20% of those whose signatures were solicited-may lend new weight to the recommendations...