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...farmers something new, "parity of income" (not to be confused with price "parity," basis of much farm legislation now on the books, and a hot one that both candidates avoided). The concept was "clear," Kennedy insisted, but the way he defined it, parity of income sounded like a mathematician's nightmare and a bureaucrat's dream. "Parity of income," he said, "is that income which gives average producers a return on their invested capital, labor and management equal to that which similar or comparable resources earn in nonfarm employment." It would be achieved through "supply management," another...
Understandable Terms. When is he "ready" to give thought to what? "As far as I am concerned," says Mathematician David Page of the University of Illinois, "young children learn almost anything faster than adults do if it can be given to them in terms they understand." Apart from re-educating teachers in the real fundamentals of their subjects, the trick is "translation" to the child's way of viewing things at each stage of mental development...
...virus to work with. He thought he was getting it from measles-stricken students at the Fay School in nearby Southboro. But his first cultures turned up only cold-sore viruses or nothing at all. Then, from the blood and throat washings of David Edmonston, 11, son of a mathematician in Bethesda, Md., Peebles cultured what proved to be the virus of measles. If the vaccine based on this work fulfills the researchers' hopes, Edmonston, now a high school senior, will enjoy vicarious but perpetual fame in the annals of medicine...
...brown suit strode up to a blackboard and wrote: ' times zero equals zero." Then he asked ten junior-high-school students to make the sentence "true" by filling in the blank. As 40 schoolteachers from as far away as Florida and Alaska looked on, the students excitedly gave Mathematician Max Beber-man their answer: the sentence is already true because anything times zero equals zero. What the teachers saw were ninth-graders discovering a math principle entirely by themselves. This approach is so important to Beberman that he may not even tell new students the name of his subject...
Cosmologists are becoming increasingly confident of their ability to fathom the secrets of the universe. Indeed there are scientists who believe that the cosmologists are too cocky. Last week in Nature, the University of London's William Hunter McCrea examined cosmology with a mathematician's skeptical eye. His conclusion: a built-in mystery to the universe will forever keep cosmologists from knowing what it is really like...