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...average student IQ was placed at 142, the lowest scorer (122) being a young foreigner who was still having trouble with his English. This brain power, when combined with mechanics, sometimes finds surprising outlets. Some of the japes at Caltech make ordinary college-boy pranks look like arrangements of kindergarten blocks. On one occasion a senior opened his door to find a completely assembled and working Ford in his room. Another senior found an assembled cement mixer, and still another bumped into a meteorological balloon that stretched from floor to ceiling and from wall to wall-completely filled with water...
...million cc. for commercial distribution, or enough for two-ishot inoculations for 21 million individuals. How this pool is to be distributed is at present left to state and local officials. Priorities are being drawn up and the order suggested in most states is something like this: Kindergarten pupils. Children in the third through eighth grades. Pregnant women. Children aged one to five. Youths from 14 to 20. Theoretically, these groups will have to pay for the vaccine and have it administered by private physicians...
Only in the U.S., reported Flesch, is there any remedial-reading problem. In Britain, kindergarten children read Three Little Pigs; in Germany, second-grade pupils can read aloud (without necessarily understanding all the words) almost anything in print. By contrast, average U.S. third-graders have a reading mastery of only 1,800 words. Why is the U.S. so far behind? Says Flesch: "We have decided to forget that we write with letters, and [instead] learn to read English as if it were Chinese...
...Grand Rapids, Mich., one of the first U.S. cities to add fluorine to its water supply, celebrated the experiment's tenth anniversary with a look at the results. Among them:1) 30% fewer kindergarten children have decayed teeth, 2) first-graders have 75% fewer cavities, 3) eighth-graders have lost 50% fewer teeth...
Guiomar Novaë's began to understand it at four, when she played marches for her kindergarten class in São Paulo. By the time she was 14, and already well rounded in arts and languages, the Brazilian government had recognized her as a blazing prodigy, sent her to Paris, where she studied with the great Pedagogue Isidor Philipp. Back home in Brazil, her life was filled with many things besides her music: she married happily, and had a son and daughter; she took up the cause of woman's suffrage, helped out promising young musicians...