Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handed children a weight at the end of a string and asked them to find out what determines the speed of the pendulum's swing. As he watched and asked questions, he found that the children were spontaneously considering all the possible variations: changing the weight, letting it drop from increasing heights, giving it stronger shoves, or changing the length of the string. Even children who never had seen pendulums before tried each possibility until they found that only shortening or lengthening the string did the trick. Quite possibly, Piagetians sometimes speculate, adolescents' fascination with their ability...
...safety legislation, Nader secured important technical data from an engineer who was fighting the installation of a gas main near his home. He first learned of the damage that pipeline explosions could cause from a professor whom he met at an M.I.T. conference. "Sometimes the things these professors casually drop at conferences send me up the wall," says Nader...
Under present AROTC rules, a freshman can join the program without having to commit himself until the beginning of his junior year. At age 19 a student with a high lottery number could drop out of AROTC without being penalized...
...account such schools a success if and only if they also possess a competitive advantage over normal ones. In other words, if among their graduates are individuals who succeed better in public life as well as private, like Daniel Cohn-Bendit or like a twenty-three year old hippie drop-out reported by Life to be making millions in stock market. These men succeed through insight; they undermine the view that success is built on conformity. Education should make people happier by giving those so inclined the strength to conquer...
...crisis has been long building. In a current book, The Price of Money, Sidney Homer and Richard Johannesen date the bear market in bonds from 1946, when high-quality corporate debentures sold at interest rates of 2.45%. But the rise in rates and the concurrent drop in bond prices have speeded up enormously since the current inflation began in 1965-and especially this year. Last week, for example, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority sold $137 million worth of bonds at a tax-free interest yield of 7%, compared with a 5⅞ yield on bonds that it had sold four...