Word: hatches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Danger Signal. Washed down from the cherry orchards by rain, those long-lived pesticides have entered the lake's food chain. When gulls eat fish, they also take in a concentrated dose of poison. As a result, they lay eggs with such thin shells that most do not hatch. "Gulls here produce .42 chicks per nest compared with 1.22 chicks per nest in less polluted areas," Scharf explains. He fears for the human population too. "The Government has linked DDT with cancer in laboratory experiments. We know that it has the same type of effect on mammals...
...Escape Hatch. Lazy or hostile students are asked a tough question: "If you don't want to do this, what do you want to do, and why?" One shy girl has blossomed because she was allowed to hand in most of her written work in the form of deft cartoons. Though self-motivated kids can design their own independent study projects, no one can spend the entire year on one subject. All units have time limits; most include tests. Students who stray from their pods without an explanation get old-fashioned detention after school. Says Principal Jones, a pragmatic...
Last fall, several earnest students petitioned Jones to close the hatch and abandon the new ways. Says self-aware Eighth-Grader Pam Kerby: "I'm one of the lazy ones, and here I don't push myself." But even Pam has just completed a demanding report on Latin America, and most of the students are ending the year with an air of steady purpose. Last week several groups seated on the floor kept on working right through one of the school's two daily bells (for lunch and dismissal). Finally one girl remarked, "The bell rang...
...Hall. With John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History; Richard E. Pipes, professor of History; James C. Thomson, lecturer on History, and Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government. 2) "Politics 1972: The Road to Conventions," in Lowell Lecture Hall. With Osborn Elliott '46, editor of Newsweek; Francis W. Hatch Jr. '46, Massachusetts Representative; E. J. Kahn '37; and Lawrence E. Spivak '21, producer of Meet the Press. 3) "CostInflation in Higher Education: Effects and Prospects." in Harvard Hall 104. With William L. Bruce, vice-dean of the Law School; John T. Dunlop. Dean of the Faculty of Arts...
...when he discovered that while the number of British Navy vessels dwindled from 62 to 20 between 1914 and 1928, the number of shore-bound Admiralty officials nearly doubled during the same period. *Naval scholars may remember that Sawyer, a sadist who mistreated his crew, mysteriously fell into a hatch, doing himself permanent injury, and soon thereafter was killed by a mob of Spanish prisoners who temporarily took over the Renown. It now appears that Hornblower both pushed Sawyer down the hatch and later cut his throat during the melee with the Spanish. It was all done, however...