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Essentially, the author's method is to mix the slangy, teen-dream prose of a suburban hell raiser with rock-solid numbers. He shows us kids who attended high school for only three days and schools that have never sent a single student to college. He explains how to hotwire a Suzuki 750 motorbike and how to sell fake acid on the streets. Yet all these fancy maneuvers are underscored by some sobering statistics. The average Japanese watches nearly an hour more of television a day than an American. Approximately 14,000 adult videos are made every year in Japan...
Many scientists too admire the show for its faithfulness to the scientific method, if not to factual science. "They have a respect for the way science and engineering work," says Louis Friedman, a former programs director at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "For example, when you make measurements of a planet and try to determine its atmosphere, then get into the transporter ... well, if you had a transporter that's probably how you'd do it. They make it believable because they go through a reasonable process...
...Crimson writes, "We are reluctant to ask President Rudenstine to lower the high tenure standards that make Harvard the nation's finest University." On the contrary, if we are judging a university, I would argue that the current standards are too low, and that the method of selection is inherently flawed. Harvard tenures scholars instead of teachers. As a result, there is no guarantee that Harvard has "the best faculty on the senior level." Instead, Harvard has prestigious research and a student body that, from the committee's standpoint, is largely regarded as superfluous...
While air travel may be the most popular method of transit, many Harvard students have chosen other methods of getting home...
...group of researchers claim to have found a much easier method of detecting the disease. In a study published in last week's issue of Science, they report that Alzheimer's patients are unusually sensitive to a drug used by ophthalmologists to enlarge the pupils during eye exams. By measuring a person's response to the drug when it is dropped into the eye, physicians may be able to diagnose the dread disorder...