Word: starters
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Three Ideas. For a starter, the educators at Boulder will remove the dead weight of words from biology. They estimate that a first-year biology student must absorb more strange-and unpronounceable-new words than he does in any first-year foreign language course. Then they plan to organize the facts of biology around a few key ideas so that the students will get a better grasp of the whole. "We want biology," says Zoologist John A. Moore of Columbia University, "not plants plus animals, each in splendid isolation, as is so often done in many courses. A Cook...
...what message would the aliens send that could be understood by earthlings? Dr. Drake suggests a familiar series of numbers, such as 1, 2, 3, 4. Professor Purcell believes that a simple on-off signal would be more logical as a starter. After that, the messages could progress to mathematical relationships, which are surely the same in all planetary systems. When earthlings understand the aliens' way of saying two plus two equals four, they will have learned the important words "plus" and "equals." Other words and logical concepts could be taught in the same...
...Argentina, threaded through the Andes ("with the Christ of the Andes above my head"). One day he set the plane down in the ocean about 50 miles off the coast of Ecuador ("I got very thirsty"). But when he tried to handcrank his engine for a takeoff, the inertial starter clutch failed. "There I was," he says, "drifting to Honolulu. I cranked myself to exhaustion." After long minutes of finger drumming, Quesada suddenly recalled an old aviator's superstition. He went back and urinated on the tail. Naturally, the engine started up with the next turn of the crank...
...about half the cost of a DC-8 or Boeing 707. The first flights of the new plane with engines placed near the tail were so successful that eight airlines (among them: Air France, SAS, Alitalia, Sabena, Varig) have ordered 60 planes. The experts think that is just a starter, forecast a potential North American market of 500 Caravelles as replacements for aging piston-engined craft...
...Rodgers, the shortest full-time starter in the National Basketball Association, stands: a) An even...