Word: symposiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...draft: "As the early Christians showed, a prophetic minority sometimes shows more insight than a silent majority." Still, the tendency of a commission is to seek consensus since, without a unanimous report, its members know that their work will have little impact. Moreover, as ancient philosophers discovered, an extended symposium on human affairs is a powerful way of getting at the truth. Lloyd Cutler, executive director of the Violence Commission, puts it this way: "A commission is an educational process for everybody. When you get people together for a year or two and expose them to the facts, the facts...
...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...
...only 481 Ibs. of lunar rocks and dust. But even that small sampling from the Sea of Tranquillity has been enough to keep 142 scientists in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia and Western Europe fully occupied in their laboratories since late last summer. In Houston last week, at a symposium sponsored by NASA, the lunar investigators finally took time out from their work to report on what they had learned so far. Their findings add a vast store of fresh knowledge about the earth's nearest celestial neighbor, but leave unanswered most of the puzzling questions about the moon...
...addition to Tuttle and Weinrub, two other Harvard scientists, David J. Jhirad, instructor in Astronomy, and Richard J. Paul, a graduate student at the Medical School, presented papers at the student symposium...