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...about congressional preference for applied research aimed at quick results, as against basic research, which may have no immediately demonstrable value. Congress barely touched the $1.1 billion research program of the National Institutes of Health, most of which is aimed at solving major medical problems. It actually added $48 million to the $137 million worth of academic-research projects sponsored by the Department of Defense, which has little difficulty in selling its military studies to the Houseof Representatives. Such work, however, is losing its allure on campus. Many scholars dislike the enforced secrecy of defense research; others simply refuse...
Bailed Out by Caltech. Stanford officials expect to lose $7 million from the school's total research budget of $46.1 million, which means that the university will operate at least $700,000 in the red this year. Assistant Dean Richard Leahy of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences predicts that some graduate students will have to drop out because of a 25% cut in research support. Harvard's Graduate School of Education may have to abandon a promising study of how preschool children develop. Caltech will have to provide at least...
...still flies, because "I gotta. But when it gets choppy, I say, 'Oh, my God,' and hold to whoever is sitting nearest." Such people get little satisfaction from the statistics, which show that air fatalities v. auto fatalities last year were .29 to 2.40 per 100 million passenger-miles; they are just plain scared of flying...
...when she and Hahn were on the verge of achieving nuclear fission. When Hahn sent her the details of his experiments with uranium some months later, she completed the immensely complex mathematical calculations proving that he had indeed split the atom and, in the process, released a fantastic 200 million electron volts of energy...
...series much of a chance. They obviously failed to consider all the fans who jaw endlessly about sports in taverns and barbershops. Newspapers ran fanciful accounts of the fights; Las Vegas posted weekly odds. For the final championship fight between Rocky Marciano and Jack Dempsey, an audience of 16.5 million listened over 380 stations as the Rock loosed "a brutal shot to the heart, a slamming left and right to the jaw," and dropped the bloodied Manassa Mauler for the count in two minutes and 28 seconds of the 13th round...