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...years later, he went to the bleak northeast coast of Scotland and started the Gordonstoun School, where Britain's Princes Philip, Charles and Andrew, along with laborers' sons, submitted to Hahn's austere regimen. In 1941 Hahn went to Wales to help set up the first Outward Bound School, where merchant seamen were taught how to survive the physical and psychological hardships of combat convoy duty. Since the end of World War II, 32 Outward Bound schools (six of them in the U.S.) based on Hahn's original have been established in 17 nations...
Most contemporary cosmologists agree that the universe was created billions of years ago when a superdense clump of primordial matter exploded with incredible force. The hot gases created by the "big bang" were flung violently outward, gradually cooling and coalescing into great islands of stars, or galaxies, that are still moving away from one another. Last week, after years of study and calculation, two respected California astronomers, Allan Sandage and James Gunn, made separate but similar announcements: the universe will continue to expand forever...
...conclusion will be disturbing to those who find the concept of an infinitely expanding or "open" universe to be philosophically unsatisfactory. "Closed universe" scientists have long contended that if there was enough matter in or between the galaxies, there would be enough mutual gravitational attraction to gradually slow their outward flight. The expansion would halt, and all the parts of the universe would begin to fall inward, eventually crushing together again in a final cataclysm. Some closed universe theorists hold out the possibility that matter would in effect rebound from the crunch in another big bang and that the universe...
...campers looked like any group of seasoned hikers enjoying the outdoors, but they actually were previously officebound executives experiencing perhaps their most unusual assignment. At the suggestion of their companies, the businessmen and women were participating in an executive-enrichment program developed and operated by Colorado's Outward Bound school...
...gain greater confidence and emotional security by mastering physical challenges. As Charles C. Gates Jr., president of the Denver-based Gates Rubber Co., explains the idea: "The brain doesn't work well if the body is dead. People need physical as well as mental challenges throughout their lives." Outward Bound President Joseph