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...strengthen reinforcement, the student is fed cues such as the first or last letter of the answer. Gradually, the cues are withdrawn so the student can stand on his own. Medical students see labels on an anatomy diagram disappear in successive frames. Third-grade spellers may learn "manufacture" in six frames: 1) Manufacture means to make or build. Chair factories manufacture chairs. Copy the word here. - ™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™ the word here: 2) Part of the word is like part of the word factory. Both parts...
...Astrojet gets its pep from a new engine: the Pratt & Whitney turbofan, which develops 17,000 Ibs. thrust. Basically, the turbofan sucks in a larger mass of air than regular jet engines to produce greater thrust with less fuel. A fan, set just inside the air intake (see diagram), pulls in the air. then blasts about 60% of it out through openings on the side of the jet pod to provide just under 50% of the engine's total thrust. The rest of the air is directed into the engine's burning chamber. The engine produces 20% more...
...correct direction, presumably by discharging small rockets or gas-jets. When it reached the preselected point on its orbit, the main rocket fired, contributing additional push that made the station spiral away from the earth and curve inward toward the sun and the orbit of Venus (see diagram...
Poetry, as Archibald MacLeish sees it, is a little like a man who shuffles across a familiar rug and touches a doorknob, only to be pricked by an unexpected spark of static electricity. In that instant, two things happen. For one, the man "understands" electricity not as a textbook diagram, but as a felt experience "charged with meaning." For another, three disparate things-the man, the rug, the doorknob-have been fused with one of the cosmic forces. They have become, in MacLeish's view, links in the underlying order at the heart of the universe, which men instinctively...
Building on its own past, science climbs in an ever steepening curve. For every Newton or Galileo or Einstein, with their intuitive explosions of individual genius, there follow hundreds of other scientists, probing and proving and progressing. Such is the soar of the scientific exponential curve (see diagram) that, it has been said, almost 90% of all the scientists that the world has ever produced are alive today...