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...search for the source of America’s educational woes never flags,” the editors wrote. “This year we turn back to the secondary schools where are sown the problems that universities like Harvard later fall heir to, through no fault of their own. We will not stop there you may be sure. Tomorrow, kindergarten; the next day, the womb...
...After pitching the screenplay to several movie producers, his literary agent, Lois K. Wallace, who worked at the William Morris Agency at the time and who had first met Segal at Harvard summer school in 1959, suggested that he turn it into a novel...
...Since Grendel’s was the only restaurant in the Square affected by the law, Tribe pointed out that the court victory didn’t necessarily turn on dozens of beer taps, although he insisted that it was nonetheless an important event...
...June issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, Tom Knutson of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration questions whether we're seeing "a really dramatic increase in Atlantic hurricane activity resulting from greenhouse warming." Quite a few of Knutson's colleagues in turn are questioning him and the computer models he's using to make this about-face. But for those of us who aren't in the eye of that scientific storm, it only raises the issue of whether predicting hurricanes is really any more reliable than forecasting earthquakes...
...dependable asset to those of us in a storm's path. The accuracy with which the National Hurricane Center here in Miami now forecasts a storm's strength as well as the time and place of its arrival, not just hours but days in advance, is a tribute to turn-of-the-century advances in meteorological spy hardware. But until seasonal forecasts like Colorado State's become more consistent, the best we can do during Hurricane Preparedness Week is just accept the fact that between June 1 and November 30, anything can happen. As for asking Bing, he recently moved...