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Typically, schools in the program would have Jackson, other prominent blacks or the principal lead an inspirational rally early in each school year. Students would be asked to sign pledges that they would devote at least two hours to their homework each night. Parents would agree personally to pick up...
Newer and lesser-known names are rising to prominence. One is Fred Iklé, 58, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, a scholarly, low-voiced, pinstripe hawk who favors putting maximum pressure on the Sandinista regime. He has the ear of Weinberger, who according to Pentagon colleagues has been too preoccupied...
Biologist Michael Ghiselin: $212,000 in 1981. A specialist in evolutionary biology and author of the acclaimed The Triumph of the Darwinian Method (1969), Ghiselin had resigned from the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley to devote more time to writing and research even before receiving his award...
After bicycling from Detroit on Saturday, the students have been travelling through Ohio for the past two days, stopping overnight in Toledo and Cleveland. Last night found the group in Shaker Heights, a large Cleveland suburb with at least a few people willing to devote both time and money to...
In the fiscal year ending March 1982, government and industry spent a total of $25 billion for research and development, or 2.4% of the gross national product, up four times from a decade earlier and a third of the current U.S. investment in R. and D. (The U.S. also allocates...