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...Living Light: Its Chemical Basis and Biological Functions" will be the topic of J. Woodland Hastings, professor of Biology and Master of North House in Science Center...
Everett Cherrington Hughes--Cambridge Forum, 8 Church Street, at 8 p.m. "The Cost of a Risk-Force Society"-- 9 Bow Street at 4:15 p.m. Sterling Stuckey--77 Dunster Street at 7:30 J. Woodland Hastings--Science Center B at 8 p.m. The Writer and Society--Boston Public Library...
...facilities at Medford High, located on a hill next to a woodland preserve, are superb. Eight interconnected stone and brick buildings in one giant comprehensive and vocational school, with a gym just short of a football field in size and the second largest indoor swimming pool in the state. The much esteemed math and science departments?which offer such courses as computer programming, calculus and earth science?have at their command a computer with eleven keyboards The facilities for vocational education, which train 471 of Medford's 3,548 students, include a fully equipped school of cosmetology When Medford High...
...observers. "Those of the first group are directly discernible by the senses and indirectly by instruments," explains Lionni, "while those of the second, far more mysterious and elusive, come to our knowledge only indirectly, through images, words, or other symbolic signs." One discernible group of plants is the Tirillus, woodland greenery found in places like the tundras of Ackerman's Land on the equally fictitious Borloff Straits. The species Tirillus vulgaris resembles bread sticks; but a variety, T. mimeticus, assumes the shape and color of its surroundings and thus is permanently invisible. Even more unusual is T. silvador, which...
These are by no means the most bizarre features of Lionniland. There are, for example, the woodland tweezers, which grow in a pattern the fictitious Japanese botanist Uchigaki has found disturbingly similar to the game of Go. And the black Anaclea taludensis flowers, defiers of the laws of perspective -they shrink as the visitor approaches, then expand as he withdraws. The Giraluna germinates from a point somewhere above the ground; its roots grow down toward but never into the earth. The Artisia is "nonorganic and very likely of human origin." This plant, covered with whirligigs, curlicues and other designs associated...