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Raising Spirits. The music itself is less interesting than the manner in which it is supposedly given. Mediums have come and gone throughout history. Today both science and the general public are more concerned with psychic phenomena than at any other time within this century. For those who long to believe in it, what could be at stake in Rosemary's rise is proof of life after death...
...factors in the difference in life at the Cliffe. The famous Cliffic depression and loneliness, the jealous guarding of privacy, the abhorrence of noise in the corridors, the pall which hangs over the halls after midnight, and the excruciating desire to escape to Harvard or off campus are all phenomena relating to physical environment...
...species. Together with a growing number of colleagues, he has worked for seven years to design mathematical models of various ecosystems for the computers to analyze. In a Ford Foundation-funded program, he now has operating models of a sample county in California and selected state phenomena: crime, education, farm production, taxation, transportation and population growth. If a $750,000 federal grant comes through, he hopes to finish an even more intricate set of equations describing land uses and energy flows...
...emphasizes that these are all they are, pending further research this summer) on an experiment he conducted last year for a class project at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Aided by another doctoral candidate, Verena Hirsch, he spent two weeks studying pedestrian phenomena on Manhattan's 42nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Much of the experiment involved Wolff and Mrs. Hirsch setting themselves on collision courses with other pedestrians and gauging their reactions...
...instruments measures the energy of charged particles that emanate from the sun and distant stars. By analyzing this radiation, which is virtually impossible to detect through the earth's shielding magnetic field, scientists may learn more about such near-terrestrial particle phenomena as the aurora borealis (northern lights) and the Van Allen radiation belts...