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...tradition of our profession are not all in texts from Plato and Rousseau and Dewey; many of the most important are intangible and unrecorded. The codeword these days is "eye contact," but this cold phrase doesn't capture the intensity and pride which many of us remember from our earliest encounters with learning...

Author: By Margaret M. Gullette, | Title: Laughing and Learning | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

This year's announcement comes on the earliest date ever, Aloian added. In fact, Juan Carlos accepted in December, but the Alumni Association decided to keep the information under wraps until later in the year...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Will Speak at Commencement | 3/2/1984 | See Source »

Within the giant cabinets that fill each floor of the building, scientists store collections of an incredible array of creatures, from the largest bird in the world to the smallest owl, fossils of the earliest known life or fossilized mammoths. In all, the museum houses collections of almost every historical precursor to men, including a marine biology section...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: MCZ Treasures | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

...industry started off small: in 1957 the Government beached a submarine reactor at Shippingport, Pa., and converted it into a power station with an output of 60 MW. The earliest American nuclear facilities were built by private companies, such as General Electric and Westinghouse, as loss leaders to convince utilities that atomic power was the future. They needed little convincing. By the end of 1967 the U.S. had 28 times as much nuclear capacity on order as it did in operation. The capacity of plants under construction increased from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pulling the Nuclear Plug | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

Until that discovery, the earliest evidence of a living organism was more than two-billion-year-old fossils of primitive plants, which Barghoorn also discovered with Dr. Stanley Tyler of the University of Wisconsin during studies conducted in Southern Ontario...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Harvard Paleobotanist Dead; Discoverer of Oldest Organism | 2/4/1984 | See Source »

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