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...slipping SAT scores has been that a larger and less selective group of students has been taking the tests. But in the past five years, as the number of students going to college has leveled off, the number taking the test has also stabilized, making this explanation no longer valid. Could it be, as many parents fear, that American schools just are not doing as good a job of developing verbal and mathematical skills as they used to do? Or are American kids simply getting dumber...
Lawyers involved say it is too early to know if the 2.2 acres purchased by the Kennedy Corporation would remain valid if the environmental statement prevented construction of the complex on the rest of the site. And even if the Kennedy Corporation's claim to the 2.2 acres were upheld by a court, the Corporation might not be required to sell the land to Harvard...
...idea is perhaps politically valid in a quaint sort of way, but was pretty well rendered moot for the U.S. by the unpleasantness at Concord and Valley Forge in the 1770s. All things considered, Americans prefer the stability of a system combining the functions of real and symbolic leader in one person and one office. It is part of the scale of the original American experiment, asking much of its citizens and those they elect...
...elected to succeed him. But Nixon had already given a batch of his papers to the U.S. in 1968 and was well aware of the procedure. In addition, in 1969, Congress was debating the law that took effect on July 25,1969, making such gifts no longer valid as tax deductions. Though Johnson, who had just left office, had presidential papers that certainly would have been worth millions of dollars, he elected not to take advantage of the lame-duck law and did not deduct them from his income tax. Nixon had no such hesitation. He made the bequest...
Doubtless, the American faith in technology is valid. Alternate sources of energy will be found. But science cannot do the job by technology alone; it needs all the help from the people...