Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surrounded by Choice. Despite the seeming anarchy, Rowell and his staff firmly believe in teaching math, reading and writing. The school has a high ratio of adults (all under 25) to kids, despite salaries of only $100 a month. There are five full-time teachers. In addition, a dozen local artists and professors do volunteer teaching. Older kids teach younger ones. Still, "classes" meet only when children come looking for things "to get into." The school's chief gift is the freedom to be interested-in anything...
...investigators doubt that a single memory molecule will be found, but they believe that molecular biology will eventually reveal the secret of memory. If so, the blue-sky possibilities are limitless. It might be possible to develop "knowledge pills" that would impart instant skill in French, tennis, music or math. McConnell jokingly proposes another idea: "Why should we waste all the knowledge a distinguished professor has accumulated simply because he's reached retirement age?" His solution: the students eat the professor...
...greatest drop in applicants occurred among scientists and those from the midwest. The number of applicants planning concentration in math or the physical sciences fell from 1630 two years ago to 1084 today. Acceptances among this group, however, remained steady at slightly more than 300. Some areas of the midwest suffered a 30 per cent decline...
Initially, the killings at Kent State and the after-math follow the same pattern: disorder breaks out, deadly force is called in to quell it, people are shot at random, evidence is suppressed, and a kangaroo tribunal returns indictments against the victims while clearing the killers. This is what happened during the summer and early fall at Kent: a grand jury cleared the Guardsmen, while indicting 25 students on charges of riot, arson, and unlawful assembly. The report-including a passage which stated that the responsibility for the shootings lay with the students, faculty, and Administration of the University...
...many critics, Abrams' math does not add up. Getting involved in wars in Cambodia and Laos as well as South Viet Nam could make U.S. withdrawal more difficult, not easier. "By edging Cambodia closer to war than it had been," says TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Jon Larsen, "we inevitably moved it from a secondary concern to one almost as intertwined with our interests in Indochina as South Viet Nam. The same will be true of Laos." Another problem is that if ARVN is to be called upon regularly for cavalry duty in Cambodia, and possibly Laos as well, it might...