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This single pedagogical breakthrough may ease some of the traumatic middle-age career switches we have been witnessing in the postwar U.S. Kudos to Northeastern for holding the fort for all these years on behalf of the offspring of America's "children of the soil...
...1980s, and the first manned spacecraft from earth has finally landed on Mars after a five-month journey. The television camera shows two figures poised on the bottom rung of the spacecraft's ladder, ready to set foot on Martian soil. Simultaneously the two men take the women tous step and in rapid succession make their historic statements - one in Eng lish, the other in Russian. Indeed, bilingualism is symbolic of the entire mis sion. For man's first voyage to Mars is a dramatic undertaking involving both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...Soil on Hands. Northeastern was among the pioneers of the co-op plan back in 1909, but in the next three decades only 25 other schools followed its lead. Since 1962, however, colleges like Wilberforce University in Ohio, Beloit College in Wisconsin and Pasadena City College in California have flocked to the plan, both for its inherent educational advantages and for its solutions to problems of space and cost. Today, more than 300 institutions have begun cooperative education. An estimated 300 more are considering the step-spurred on by a White House recommendation that $10.8 million in startup grants...
...gray dust as the lander touches on the surface. There are also still shots that strikingly convey the eerie desolation of lunar distances. None is more dramatic than one that shows the Lunar Rover parked on the far edge of a yawning crater while Astronaut Duke picks up soil samples in the foreground (see color pages). One alarming view of Orion, shot from Casper by Mattingly, shows mysteriously damaged panels on the side of the lunar module as it returns from the surface of the moon...
...cross between a lobster and a skyscraper, stands 20 stories high and weighs 7,000 tons. Tearing up earth at a rate of 200 tons per bite, the Hanna Coal Co.'s Gem (actually an acronym for Giant Earth Mover) has stripped the top 80 ft. of soil off the area around Hendrysburg, Ohio, so that other machines can gouge out the underlying coal. Now the Gem wants to move across Interstate Highway 70 and chew its way toward Barnesville (pop. 4,300), ten miles to the south...