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Proposals for joint industry university research have aroused controversy on campuses across the nation in the last few years. Many professors fear that investment such as the new $100 million Whitehead Institute at MIT will jeopardize research by making potential profit more important than basic science...
...wording of the law is fuzzy, classifying paraphernalia not by what it is but by what it is used for. A corncob pipe with "Get High" or "Marijuana Smokers Do it Better" lettered on the bowl, for example, would be considered illegal. Howard whitehead, a spokesman for the Middlesex County District Attorney's office, says that as with any new statute whose language is difficult, a few test casts in court are needed to determine how far-reaching the new law is, exactly what someone has to sell to violate the law, Whitehead said that the law will be difficult...
...While Whitehead says investigations of large scale outlets may prove successful, prosecuting independent craftsmen who make their own paraphernalia and sell it to friends and neighbors will be far more difficult. The law seems aimed at reducing large scale sales of equipment used to in gest drugs, especially sales to minors...
...root of the word algebra is the Arabic al-jabr, which means "bringing together." Saxon's synthesis of traditional practice and drill with the fundamentals of modern algebraic theory taught clearly may provide an alternative to the present dismal state of mathematics teaching. Alfred North Whitehead, the English mathematician and philosopher, once noted that "the study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment." If John Saxon is right, the study of algebra may not end so. -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Jeanne-Marie North/New York
Soon, he appointed Henderson, Whitehead, and two other University officials to a committee to recommend to him a Trinity equivalent at Harvard. Their report, written in 1926 by Henderson, was the proposal for the Society of Fellows, and Lowell set out to put it into effect...