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To weave together the scattered data and reach his conclusions, Jencks employed a sophisticated statistical technique called "path" analysis, which has long been used by researchers in genetics and biology but only recently in sociology. For this book it involved programming a computer with a chain of mathematical equations embodying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Schools Cannot Do | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

Dusted liberally over baby's bottom to prevent diaper rash, talcum powder is considered by most parents to be safe. That assumption is not necessarily true. There have been scattered incidents in the U.S. of severe skin rashes and even poisoning from powder containing dangerous ingredients. Last year doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Deadly Powder | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

Last year the Pentagon papers cut into the summer recess. This year the dispute over the California delegation to the Democratic Convention brought the Justices back to work in only the fourth special summer session in history. After that, the court firmly turned down two more bids for special hearings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: An Alleged Vacation | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

But freshmen expecting to live in a coed entry or floor will be disappointed. Many women who had lived in Harvard Houses where they were greatly outnumbered by men objected to having the freshmen women scattered in small numbers throughout all the entries. They argued that a "critical mass" of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 200 Freshmen Women to Reside in the Yard | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

At the same time, faculty members in the sciences were raising objections to the very idea of an Undergraduate Science Center. The educational gains to be gotten--reserving an area especially adapted for undergraduates, where they would have lab space free of intervening researchers--seemed to some to be outweighed...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: A $10 Million Science Center Headache | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

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