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...Beethoven and Wagner, learn math by playing with dice and cards, and stroll the halls in jeans and T shirts. At another, there are spelling bees, reading drills, a strict dress code-and paddlings. The two schools seem so different they could be on opposite sides of the planet. But both are located in Pasadena, Calif, (pop. 113,000), a Los Angeles suburb, and are part of a school system that offers one of the nation's most diversified educational programs...
...Heartbreak House. In that play, written shortly before World War I, Shaw dramatized the sundering of the social fabric of Western civilization. Stoppard is concerned with the moral fabric, the abyss of nonbelief. He sees man, devoid of metaphysical absolutes, as rending his fellow man and reducing the planet to a desolate, lifeless cipher rather like the moon, which is a key symbol in Jumpers...
...have experienced a devastating rash of tornadoes [April 15]-more than 300 dead and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Is there one country on this planet that rushed...
Mariner 10 spacecraft that last week passed close to the planet Mercury. Employment at the Kennedy Space Center alone has dropped from 26,600 in 1967 to less than...
...more massive earth held on to its volcanic vapors; it also was better able to retain its internal heat. The atmosphere and seas were formed, creating conditions for the first stirrings of life. Eventually, winds, water and mountain-building eradicated or covered virtually all geological traces of the planet's violent beginnings. In contrast, the moon has remained largely unchanged since its last burst of volcanism, disturbed only by an occasional meteorite or a periodic moonquake (caused by the gravitational tug of the earth or sun as the moon's lopsided orbit occasionally brings the moon closer...