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...months pregnant, was walking from an anthropology class when a bullet crashed into her abdomen; she survived, but later gave birth to a stillborn child whose skull had been crushed by the shot. A horrified classmate, Freshman Thomas Eckman, 19, knelt beside her to help, was shot dead himself. Mathematician Robert Boyer, 33, en route to a teaching job in Liverpool, England, where his pregnant wife and two children were awaiting him, stepped out onto the mall to head for lunch, was shot fatally in the back. More fortunate was Secretary Charlotte Darehshori, who rushed out to help when...
...controversy will rage until educators produce reliable studies of the long-range effects of parental preschool teaching. No one knows whether a grasp of algebra at five makes a boy a sharper mathematician at 25. Meanwhile, all the experts urge caution-and even Doman and the Engelmanns concede that impatient parents, who tense up when Timmy says "saw" as he looks at the word was, ought to forget the whole thing...
Less than 200 supernovae have ever been observed, and only three confirmed sightings have been recorded in the earth's Milky Way galaxy. The last occurred in 1604 when Mathematician Johannes Kepler was credited with a find, and the next seems long overdue...
Relief Pitcher Dick Hall is an amateur mathematician who on drizzly afternoons amuses himself trying to predict whether a game will be called off -by calculating the number of raindrops falling per second on one square foot of the field. Rightfielder Frank Robinson used to be known as "the meanest man in the National League," before he was traded to the Orioles by the Cincinnati Reds last winter. Now he is the meanest man in both leagues -with the possible exception of Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer (TIME cover, Sept...
Temperature Charts. Acting on the theory that its experts may be just moments away from some momentous discovery, the small Institute staff solicitously seeks to answer every reasonable human need. Because Mathematician Kurt Goedel is acutely sensitive to heat and cold, the temperature variations in his office were carefully charted for a month before he took occupancy. When Physicist Dirac's thoughtful walks were disturbed by a trailing dog, the staff sniffed out its owners, asked them to keep it at home. Even the members' own children are banned from the Institute's eight small, mostly...