Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Call for the Cop. Most programs to ease the glut try to treat aviation within the existing rule of individual right to the air. A few experts take a more radical tack. They would create a federal aviation traffic cop to assign not only flight routes but also schedules and air speeds, thus spreading the jarm out of rush hours. Instead of informing the FAA of his flight plan and being accommodated no matter what the crush, every civilian pilot would have to notify a controller of his intentions and ask: "When...
...races. The second is that even if science possessed such tools, the racial divisions could not conceivably be used to grade human worth. So meager is man's understanding of the complicated biochemistry of evolution and of the nonhereditary influences of cultural environment that no one can confidently assign that portion of intelligence with which man was born and that part he acquired. If heredity bestows his capacity to learn, culture decides what he will learn-in some cases, how much he will be permitted to learn. The handicaps under which the U.S. Negro has existed since he arrived...
...public relations purpose, it is of considerable value to the national ROTC program to have a unit within the academic system at Harvard. But since the Harvard program is more of a show than a producer of officers, the Army does not assign Harvard its best officers. The end result is a sad cycle: very few Harvard undergraduates join ROTC, the Army therefore does not send first-rate commanding officers, and the program becomes more unpopular than before...
...classroom, teachers try to make the subject matter as specific as possible-especially in the elementary grades, where they commonly assign children to model the male and female genitals in clay or make drawings of them and their workings. Some instructors use plastic manikins from which the exterior genitals can be removed to reveal the apparatus within. One sex educator in Detroit demonstrates the stretching of the uterus with a rubber ball inside a sock, and the growth of the human embryo by soaking beans in water until they swell and sprout. Teachers get much help from movies in schools...
This Midsummer Night's Dream is the work of Daniel Seltzer's Hum 105 class, and there is a temptation to assign it a grade. Let it go as a disappointment, but not a failure...