Word: method
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...teaching reading, already in wide use in the U.S., is challenging the "look-say" method that took over the field beginning 40 years ago. Look-say, best known through the "Dick and Jane" readers, counts on sight identification of whole words, using pictures as clues, and brings in phonetics only gradually. The new method, without being a throwback to McGuffey, is centered on phonetics, freely uses picture clues and-most significantly-puts to work on a broad scale the theory of programmed learning...
...major reason for the speedup is that the step-by-step procedure helps a teacher spot precisely what is puzzling a child-and the method frees her "to give such children help without holding up others. It also gives her a chance to cope with one of the most worrisome facts facing every elementary teacher: the broad range in mental age (at least four years in a typical first-grade class) among her students. But the real key to the program's success, in Sullivan's view, is that in his books "the kids were the authors...
...chromosomal defects determined at the moment of conception, the latest implicated a viral disease. To get clear prints from the hands of tiny, squirming infants, Dr. Achs and her colleagues found that the policeman's inkpad and fingerprint technique would not do; instead they used a direct photographic method developed by New York's Philips Laboratories. The babies' palms were pressed against a prism so that the print was reflected and magnified, and could be photographed with a Polaroid camera...
Sticking close to the original Wangensteen cooling method of pumping alcohol, at a temperature near zero Fahrenheit, into a stomach balloon, Dr. Hitchcock and his team treated 173 patients, 172 of whom have now been followed for 18 months (one was killed in an auto accident). They report that 50 have minimal ulcer pain remaining, and 13 have none-a satisfactory result rate of only 37%. No fewer than 71 of the patients still suffer pain, 37 more eventually had to have part of their stomachs removed, and one died from a gastric-ulcer perforation...
Died. Maurice Neville Hill, 46, British oceanographer, a Cambridge University professor who in 1 947 devised a method of determining the thickness of the earth's crust by measuring the seismic effect of explosions in the water, thereafter led a series of expeditions that in 1953 placed the thickness of the crust beneath the Atlantic at an average three miles; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Cambridge...