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...rebellion. Many young sociologists found Marx's explicitly revolutionary analysis of modern capitalist social relations more appealing than Parson's more abstract, apolotical--and therefore, it seemed, inherently conservative--theory. Critics characterized Parson's convoluted prose style as opaque and his analyses as suggestive but inadequate, if not simply incorrect...
...overestimated the seriousness of the large hydrogen bubble that formed in the reactor vessel. Despite that small explosion, investigators now believe there was never any danger of a bigger blast, which could have ruptured the reactor vessel and containment building, spreading deadly radiation. The false alarm was caused by incorrect speculation about free oxygen in the vessel...
...with considerable success since last September. The red and yellow plastic device asks wide-eyed kids and fascinated adults to spell words as easy as was or as difficult as quotient by punching out the letters on a keyboard. It then responds, "That is correct," or "That is incorrect," and gives the bad speller two more chances before it spells the word itself and goes on to the next word. The chip has a vocabulary of 250 words, and another chip called Vowel Power can add 150 more. The voice is a male monotone patterned after the Midwestern accent...
Thomas A. Dingman '67, assistant dean of the College, who participated in the sorting process this year, said Thursday that statements in a letter explaining the lottery process he wrote to freshmen this year were "incorrect and misleading" because they imply that the entire assignment process is conducted by computer...
...interested)." There will always be an England. Meanwhile a team of editors is getting ready to "Americanize" the new paperback, before issuing it here. It is to be hoped that the American editors will agree with Hawkins that the term "media" is a plural; even in America, it remains incorrect to say that the media is doing anything...