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...Center will be financed by a grant from the Foundation and will be called the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Center for Aerospace Health and Safety. The $750,000 grant will be paid over a ten-year period...
...experiment has been organized by the National Institutes of Health as part of a huge ten-year study of 50,000 pregnancies and the health and growth of the resulting children. Smoking during pregnancy is of special interest to the researchers because women who smoke seem more likely to have their babies prematurely. And prematurity, despite recent medical progress, is a hazard to health and even life: 50% of all babies who die in the first month after delivery are among the 7% born prematurely. Some doctors, though, see no direct connection between smoking and prematurity; they argue that...
...competitive levels; the power produced at Bradwell and Berkeley still costs substantially more than electricity generated with coal. But some time between 1970 and 1973, when the construction costs of the nuclear plants are finally paid off, the longer life of atomic fuel should even things up. This ten-year wait for a payoff does not worry the British...
Last week Evtushenko was finishing his movie script, which will be filmed in Cuba this spring. Two new volumes of his verse are to be published soon, and he is working on his first novel since childhood. He calls it The Law of Big Numbers, a ten-year project that will "attempt to apply mathematical equations to the new generation of Russian intellectuals." Strange Days. No simple equation can tell how Russia's youth will mature, or what kind of society it will inherit...
...gesture enlightened enough to ask for more enlightenment, the Ford Foundation has granted $125,000 for a ten-year study that may measurably alter admissions policy of the nation's colleges. Under the grant Williams College will examine students admitted "with less-than-outstanding grades and test scores but with promising qualities that defy scientific measurement" such as "flair, forte, strength of character...