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...nucleus of the present bill is Title 1 of the earlier omnibus health plan but the substance is a full-scale compromise with the AMA's position. The AMA disliked the scholarship program, the administration changed the bill to give scholarships only after the supply of self-sufficient medical school applicants is exhausted; the AMA feared that the stipend paid to medical schools for students over and above their average enrollment would encourage "wildeat" schools, the administration cut that stipend to one-third of its original size. But the medical group, fearing the bull too much to eat the beef...
Feats like this, hitherto impossible for slow, short-lived man, are what make scientists wildly excited about the new computers. Virtually every branch of science is surrounded by beetling walls of unscalable figures. The hazy paths of electrons whirling around a nucleus, the speeding flow of air over an airplane's wing, the structure and reactions of complex chemical molecules-all these involve continents and oceans of figures, figures, figures. Sometimes a simple answer (a small number, or even a yes or a no) would cost a lifetime or 100 lifetimes of human calculation...
...Fight. For 4½ years, Soekarno (like many other Indonesians he has no surname) had been president of the rebel Indonesian republic which had waged war against the Dutch, and which now formed the nucleus of the new federation. A Dutch-trained engineer, and an Asia-trained nationalist, he had spent 25 of his 49 years fighting for Indonesia's independence. The Japanese made him Indonesia's puppet ruler, and he collaborated with them; later he explained that he did it to teach his countrymen how to fight the white...
...tricky element. As it comes from the mines, it contains only .7% of the active isotope U-235, whose atoms "fission" (split in two) with a big release of energy. Nearly all the rest is 11-238, an idle isotope which will not fission naturally, though its heavy nucleus contains about the same energy...
...Harvard World Chapter called the meeting to form a nucleus of graduate students interested in federalism...