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...nation is spinning towards scientific and technological illiteracy," Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and professor of the History of Science, said Wednesday in the tenth Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities...
...Jefferson Lecture is described by its sponsor, the National Endowment for the Humanities, as the "highest honor that the United States pays to an eminent humanist." Holton, the first scientist to be so honored, gave the hour-long lecture Monday in Washington, D.C. and repeated it Wednesday before an invited audience of about 250 at the Boston Public Library...
Holton is the third Harvard professor to give the Jefferson Lecture, following Erik H. Erikson, professor of Human Development Emeritus, and Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor Emeritus...
There are, however, a few signs that St. Louis may rise again. For one thing, the rapid growth of St. Louis County, which for decades has drawn people and businesses away from the city, is slowing to a trickle. Last decade the county grew only 2%, while nearby Franklin, Jefferson and St. Charles counties posted population gains ranging from 29% to 55%. Now St. Louis County is starting to have trouble supporting its schools and services. Already city officials are beginning to talk merger again, though this time the suburbanites do not seem so hostile...
When Circuit Court Judge Byron Kinder stepped to the bench in his Jefferson City, Mo., courtroom one day last week, he looked down on an unusual audience: 100 lawyers. They were not there by choice; they had come in response to a subpoena that warned, "Fail not to appear at your own peril." All 100 work for Missouri agencies based in Jefferson City, the state capital. In a drastic and perhaps unprecedented step, Kinder had summoned them so that he could press them into service as public defenders for indigent criminal defendants...