Word: experimental
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In a 17th century brick building on Paris' Boulevard de Port-Royal, once the abbey where the Mathematician Blaise Pascal underwent religious conversion, a quite different kind of experiment is taking place. Into a small room of the Baudelocque Maternity Hospital marches a nurse bearing a tiny, wrinkled infant...
(12 of 13) nurturing mother is as important as psychiatrists say, hired substitutes may seem a poor alternative, but most psychological researchers reject any such conclusion. All a baby basically needs, they say, is at least someone who is consistently there and who really cares. All depends, obviously, on the...
Many mothers believe they can understand different kinds of crying by their babies (a controlled experiment in 1973 showed they could not), and they believe even more strongly that their babies can understand a parent's murmurings. And perhaps they can. Though children do not ordinarily say anything very...
Of the 225 high school teachers who attended seminars this summer, 35 of them studied at Harvard under Professor of American and English Literature Helen H. Vendler, who taught a group on lyrie poetry, and Professor of Government, Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., who led a seminar entitled "The American Experiment...
For both the Soviets and the Americans, a permanent space station could provide innumerable benefits. Everything from zero-g manufacturing of near perfect crystals for electronics to routine expeditions to the moon and the other planets could move from the realm of expensive experiment into everyday reality.