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...children are enforced both by legislation and public opinion. This may, however, not be the case in regard to the quotation extracted from a 19-year-old boy who evidently belongs to the category that breeds juvenile delinquents. Juvenile delinquency is perhaps also one of the elements of the sphere of public morality. The Swedish authorities and parents seem in this field to have a somewhat smaller problem to deal with than do their American counterparts...
...luxuriously high teacher-student ratio of about one to three. While other campuses glut themselves with courses, Caltech will happily drop a few (most recent examples: meteorology and industrial design) on the refreshing theory that "if Caltech can't do a job within its sphere better than anyone else, then there's no sense in doing it at all." Over the years, it has either trained or hired for permanent positions five Nobel Prizewinners. It has 42 names in American Men of Science and the highest percentage (9%) of facultymen in the National Academy of Sciences...
...kind, no matter how innocuous. And certain members of the Administration have long shown a distressing tendency to seek political advantage through selective leaks to the press; the release of the Yalta documents was only the most spectacular example. Under the new view of public information, the sphere of such political intriguing would be greatly widened. If the Administration sincerely believes that present security procedures are dangerously inadequate, let it undertake a systematic and logical revision of the classification system. Its efforts so far have only raised the ugly threat of censorship and have added to the national burden...
...conclusion, if by chance this great architectural advance, seeking perfection in roundness (this being the closest architecture can presently come to the perfect sphere), does not inspire the students with religious zeal, it may yet, by its very strangeness of form, further their engineering interests and drive them to design even "bigger and better" chapels of worship. Nan Barkin--Radcliffe...
Beetle v. Geoid. If the earth were a perfect sphere, he says, it would not be stable on its axis. The "smallest beetle crawling over it would change the axis of rotation in relation to markings on the sphere" because there would be no force to resist the kickback of the beetle's crawling. But the earth is not a perfect sphere; it is a geoid slightly flattened at the poles by the centrifugal force of its rotation. So it spins like a fat flywheel on the short axis between the poles...