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Organic Chemistry is traditionally the most rigorous of the courses in the pre-med sequence. Chem 20a is the first half of a full courses in the subject and its final exam assumes great importance because students who do poorly on it are not allowed to complete the course, and...

Author: By Walter N. Rothschild iii, | Title: Faculty Committee Rejects a Longer Chem 20 Exam | 4/25/1974 | See Source »

On its simplest level, The Conversation works as a subtle psychological thriller to which Coppola has given a musical construction. The conversation in the park is replayed at intervals throughout the movie-like a theme that gains color and resonance from what has preceded and surrounds it. The conversation begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sounds of Silence | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

Until science adopts the same rigorous testing procedures that are applied to any other investigation, the pursuit of any possible "psi" effect will meet with serious and legitimate objections. Miracle workers will continue to produce "paranormal" ghost pictures, bend nails and float objects in midair. Scientists will be confused until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1974 | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

The faculty got rid of its "core curriculum," the one-and-a-half year program in the basic sciences that allowed clinical staff to teach alongside of basic sciences instructors. The plan that replaces it will, beginning in September, return teaching to the basic science departments, and will probably mean...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Scientists Benefit In Medical School Curriculum Change | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

In and out of the laboratory, many paranormalist investigators conduct experiments that mock rigorous and logical procedure. Claims are made, and the burden of proof is shifted to the doubter. Ground rules are laid down by the psychic subject and are all too eagerly accepted by his examiner. If the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom Times on the Psychic Frontier | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

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