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But so tempestuous have the students proved in their earliest reconfinement to the classroom that the present interval is being designated a transitional period of "struggle," preliminary to the full-scale resumption of school in the fall. For the time being, by Mao's edict, all students are expected...
After that, they seem to age 15 years in the ten-year interval between U.S. censuses. Chief Actuary Robert J. Myers of the Social Security Administration has analyzed the 1960 census report of 10,000 self-proclaimed centenarians in the U.S. and concludes that the true number was no more...
A little more than four hundred years ago Albrecht Durer made a portrait of Erasmus but felt it necessary to protect himself by putting an inscription right in the painting: "If you really want to know what the man Erasmus is like, read his books." A book, either by or...
Over the next decade, the agency estimates, landings and takeoffs at airports controlled by FAA towers will triple?from more than 41 million in 1966 to 139 million. During the same interval, the annual number of flights by instrument rules will grow from 5.2 million to 12.4 million. The number...
The technique itself is relatively uncomplicated -- bits of syllables are arbitrarily discarded by a special electromagnetic speech compressor machine. Cramer has found, through extensive experimentation, that the ideal "discard interval" is 14 milliseconds, or only 14/1000 of every second of recorded speech. Yet the result is good comprehension at rates...