Word: sci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee on General Education yesterday decided to offer Nat Sci 36, "Biological Determinism," again next year, but decided by a close margin that because of its instructors' grading policies, the course will not count toward Gen Ed requirements...
...stayed--some of them 30, 40 years. They weren't paid much of anything. Some had an independent income, but for those who didn't ..." Layzer frowns and shakes his head. A professor of Astronomy, Layzer has been around the Observatory a long time, teaching Nat Sci 90, a large undergraduate course, and doing theoretical work. "That was the old way of doing things here," he goes on. "The Observatory was run like an anthill. They had a slave labor system, in essence. All those non-productive females. Today astronomy is different. Now all the thinking is done by research...
...Science Center a metal dome glints brightly, catching the last light of the spring sun. The "Michael" telescope has just been mounted on the roof there; Art, a former professor of his, and some other students set it up. Nat Sci 90 will use it, instead of the "9" telescope on the Observatory roof, for the simple projects that can still be done there, where the city obscures the stars. The occasional amateur can come up on Friday nights to peek at the lavender and cornerless box of Cambridge sky. If the moon rattles, the Observatory will doubtless hear about...
...Teddy's greatest boons is a battery-powered, astronaut-type pressure suit with its own portable air-filtration system. Donning it, he is able to venture outdoors for several hours at a time. Though embarrassed at first by the suit's Buck Rogers look, Sci-Fi Buff...
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