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...when carbon 14 is mentioned, he lights up like a Roman candle. He remembers with special pleasure his dealings with the archaeologists. "They are all as poor as church mice," he says, "but such enthusiasm!" They brought him unimpressive things -fragments of charcoal from ancient hearths, or bones of extinct bison-and when he measured the age of the objects, the archaeologists made him feel that he had done something priceless and wonderful for them...
...determining whether the "big man on campus" still exists or has become an extinct fossil, we are planning to publish a feature on BMOCism at Princeton. We would like to include an additional survey of other Ivy League schools and request your help in this matter...
...seat of the uproar was a familiar but far from extinct political volcano: the conflict over state-school funds between Socialists and anticlericals on the one hand and Belgian Catholics on the other. Last year, when the present Liberal-Socialist government came into office, Socialist Leo Collard, the new Minister of Education, quickly made it clear that he intended to favor secular schools in the allotment of state education subsidies. In the previous Catholic government the principle of equal treatment had been applied to state schools, with some 712,000 pupils, and Catholic schools, with...
...aimed at taking redistricting out of politics as far as possible, the issue is almost certain to arouse bitter partisan argument in the legislature. But obstruction for the sake of possible short-term political gains can hardly benefit either party. Massachusetts should welcome the opportunity to make the gerrymander extinct...
...across the satellite's cracked, rugged face like smallpox scars. Many are ringed by mountains up to 20,000 ft. high; some are more than 100 miles across and four miles deep. What caused these lunar markings? Astronomers advance two theories: the craters are 1) the shells of extinct volcanos, or 2) the result of meteorite bombardments some 4 billion years...