Word: sci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultural phenomenon, black holes also appear in slogans on T shirts and bumper stickers (BLACK HOLES ARE OUT OF SIGHT), and are the subject of banter by Johnny Carson and other TV talk show hosts. A gag advertisement in the sci-fi magazine Analog by a company named Nothingness Unlimited promoted "black-hole disposal units," invisible devices (in seven decorator colors) that suck up unlimited waste...
...adoption of a set of requirements that each student would have to take, in addition to courses in his or her concentration. The scheme was simple, at least on the surface: the range of disciplines was divided into the Social Sciences. Natural Sciences and Humanities (affectionately known as Soc Sci, Nat Sci and Hum), with the Committee on General Education offering introductory courses in each area. Each student would have to take two half-courses in two of the three areas--the two areas that were not related to his field of concentration. (An example, for the confused--in this...
...that reported on the Gen Ed system two years ago said then that "We have never really abandoned the principle of General Education. But the present General Education guidelines are ineffective and worn down." The Task Force's report was a bit more biting: noting the number of Nat Sci courses that had sprung up to cater to the needs of non-science types, it concluded that the needs of non-science types, it concluded that the Nat Sci requirement "can be met in any number of way which insure that the student will not learn, or even observe from...
...present, the Core plan actually calls for students to take only one course in the last group, and three in Literature and the Arts, but this is subject to change. And while thus far no one has devised clever abbreviations for the areas to match the beloved Nat Sci, Soc Sci and Hum, the Faculty is establishing a four-year phasing-in period, which should allow plenty of time for such niceties later...
...sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, a space-walking astronaut is separated from his ship and sent hurtling off to his death in space by an intelligent but deranged computer. Last week, in spite of Russian efforts to keep the incident quiet, Western sources reported that a Soviet cosmonaut narrowly avoided a similar fate in February. The near mishap apparently resulted from an unauthorized space walk by Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko, 33, during last spring's record-breaking 96-day orbital flight aboard the Salyut 6 space station...