Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laboratory Search. The search for this hardy life should not be carried out in a hasty, slam-bang manner, said the report. The first step, though, can be carried out at once: laboratory work aimed at determining just what kinds of life are chemically possible. If chemical systems are found that might be the basis of novel, non-earthly forms of life, the instruments sent to Mars should be equipped to look for them as well as for familiar life...
...atmosphere cannot learn many details about Mars, but the biggest of them, says the report, should give more attention to the Martian problem. Telescopes carried aloft by balloons should study Mars intensively through the transparent upper layers of the atmosphere, and satellite-carried telescopes should take the work another step forward...
...Final step, some time in the early 1970s, will be to land an ABL (Automated Biological Laboratory) equipped to search for and analyze anything resembling life, and to send reports back to earth by radio. The ABL must be prepared to select and analyze kinds of life unknown on earth. But there is little chance that any large hostile creatures will attack and destroy it. Martian life is probably lowly, but no one really knows...
...states, including California. In decisions dating to 1908, the Supreme Court had refused to bar such comment in state courts (federal courts have barred it since 1893). But last year the court extended the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to all state courts (Malloy v. Hogan), a step inevitably pointing to Griffin's victory. As a result, the U.S. Constitution now guarantees what 44 states have already established on their own. As for Eddie Griffin, he faces retrial in California with no comment on his silence. Whether the new right will help him remains to be seen...
...institution of junior generals is a wise, but only a first, step. The department should now turn its attention to the Soc Rel curricula. Formal distribution requirements within the field are needed, for all concentrators. Much more important, something must be done with sophomore tutorial, which now serves no purpose and earns no course credit. The present, very vague guidelines for the tutorial should give way to a definite syllabus, providing adequate interdisciplinary groundwork for the new junior generals...