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Panelists at a Medical School symposium on medical practice in mainland China agreed Monday night that the Communist regime has done an excellent job of spreading health care to most segments of the Chinese population...
...called a safeguard, but it doesn't guard and it isn't safe-and it is useless and expensive," Joseph S. Clark '23, former Senator from Pennsylvania, said at a symposium last night at Sander's Theatre...
...symposium focuses on the "crisis that the arms race has created and was designed to alert the citizenry of the developments on the horizon in the arms field and what it can mean to them," Leo Grodzins, professor of Physics at M. I. T., said in a press conference yesterday afternoon...
...publicity, the antiplant forces have hired a full-time publicist to trumpet the consequences of pollution. Recently they called in ecologists from the University of Georgia to chart the plant's potential effects on marine life. Three weeks ago, Ecologist Barry Commoner helped them to organize a symposium on conservation that was attended by representatives from the National Audubon Society. The cause also got a boost from vacationing college students who staged a protest in downtown Beaufort, chanting "Progress without pollution...
...Cold. One of the more surprising revelations at the symposium was the age difference between the dust and the rocks found at Tranquillity Base. Using dating methods based on the decay of radioactive elements, scientists determined that, although the dust particles were 4.6 billion years old -the apparent age of the moon itself -most of the rocks were about 1 billion years younger. How could there be such a huge age gap between material picked up only a few feet apart? "This is a major puzzle," says Rice University Geologist Dieter Heymann. One small rock fragment, though, was considerably older...