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Determined to make math less formidable, Zacharias in 1974 assembled a team of educators at the Educational Development Center in Newton, Mass. With the help of a $4 million grant from the U.S. Office of Education, the group created a series of 65 TV programs aimed at eight- to eleven-year-olds-the age at which interest in math first begins to wane. Zacharias and his co-workers isolated five mathematical concepts rarely mastered by that age group: map making and scaling, estimating, measurement, decimals and graphs. Then the team planned Factory episodes that focus on each of these problem...
Died. Werner Heisenberg, 74, iconoclastic German nuclear physicist who joined with Albert Einstein, Max Planck and others in repealing some of Newton's laws of physics during the 1920s and 1930s; in Munich. Heisenberg's outstanding contribution, for which he won the Nobel Prize at 31, was the formulation of the uncertainty, or indeterminacy principle. It states that there is an ultimate limit on physical measurement or observation in scientific experiments because the very act of measurement changes the behavior of objects under scrutiny. Unlike many of his scientist friends, Heisenberg remained in Germany under the Nazi regime...
...lunch of jug Burgundy and ham-and-cheese sandwiches. Besides Cox, the task force included Black Theologian Preston Williams of Harvard, a Chicane theologian from California, a local pastor laden with preliminary documents for the World Council of Churches assembly, and Social Ethicist Max Stackhouse of Andover Newton Theological School, who edited the various drafts of the pronouncement...
David Halberstam's CBS chronicles do not include the network's latest misadventure in pursuit of news. Two weeks ago Clarence Newton ("Chuck") Medlin, 49, approached a Greensboro, N.C., freelance writer named Patrick O'Keefe and told him that he knew where to find the body of missing former Teamsters Union President James Hoffa. Medlin, a sinister-looking self-professed former hit man, said he had once served as Hoffa's bodyguard and had learned of his old boss's final resting place from the hired killer who put him there...
...thwack of my helmet against the seat confirms Newton's third law of motion. The air is piercingly fresh, and the desert mountains glow golden in the morning sun. But soon the drive will become a spastic, three-hour Cinerama focused on 100 miles of lifeless mesquite moonscape-beginning in Laughlin and running across sand washes, over mountains, around canyons and back. "Howdy doody!" Evans yells, skipping the yellow truck over a 5-ft. ravine. "I can't stay away. Racing off-road is like narcotics to a dope addict...