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...designed to measure the amount of energy that bounces from the sun into the earth's atmosphere, where it is swirled about by wind and water and partly tossed back into space. By better understanding the dynamics of solar radiation, scientists hope they may be able to predict world weather patterns more accurately. But when Ride applied her expertise with the Canadian-built 50-ft. remote manipulator arm to lift the ERBS from the shuttle's cargo bay, two 12-ft. by 8-ft. solar panels on the satellite refused to unfold. After fruitlessly shaking the cylindrical ERBS...
Others expect the court to keep shooting holes in the Fourth Amendment guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Already the Justices have given police more freedom to stop passengers in airports, inspect open fields for drugs, seize evidence in "plain view" and search automobiles. But experts predict that the court will not touch the most basic safeguard, the right to counsel, and doubt that it will greatly trim back the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights to counsel and against self-incrimination...
Because the suit centers around whether the Defense Department or the city has the supreme authority to regulate the laboratory, several city officials predict the question will not be settled until the case reaches the U.S. Supreme Court...
About 1 million college-bound high school seniors-one-third of the class of '84-took the SAT exam last year. The test is designed to predict how students will perform in college. But each year's results have come to be scrutinized as a signal of how U.S. high schools are going. The plunge from 1963 (when the verbal average was 478, the math average 502) to 1980 and '81 (when they bottomed out at 424 verbal and 466 math) was attributed to social factors, softening ,- academic standards and deteriorating schools...
...reasons are clear: the number of 18-to 22-year-olds is rapidly declining; some demographers predict a drop of 25% over the next decade. Furthermore, 30 years ago college students were about evenly divided between the public and private sectors. Today 78% of all college students attend public institutions. Even though the total cost of educating a student is roughly the same, public tuition, aided by state and federal taxes, averages $1,126 a year, vs. $5,016 at private institutions. Notes Gary Quehl, president of the Council of Independent Colleges: "American higher education is the only national industry...