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...more comfortable. However, 86% feel that most citizens are not sufficiently informed to help set goals for scientific research, and 85% believe that most citizens are not sufficiently informed to choose which technologies to develop. I am troubled by this public reluctance to participate in scientific debate. The most precious resource of a free society is the full participation of citizens. Yet here we have a major area of our national life that is regarded as off limits to most of the public...
...there is precious little evidence that Weston's schools are cranking out better and better students each year. As with public schools everywhere, the growth in electives has meant less time for core academics. One rough sign of the decline is weakening performance on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, which colleges often use to help evaluate an applicant's real academic promise. Nationwide, scores have slipped gently but steadily in recent years, and Weston has been no exception, with test results now averaging in a distinctly mediocre 450 to 480 range. Though most seniors go on to college anyway...
...complex nature of Harvard's collections also makes them precious--and susceptible to ruin due to age and deterioration. Heather E. Cole, librarian of Hilles and Lamont libraries, says "it's remarkable the way Hilles and Lamont have been built to last." While the undergraduate libraries and Widener do not face the same immediate dangers to their structures as in some decrepit Houses and buildings, the librarians say there are potential problems with the preservation of books...
...haltingly explained such hallowed ground was not for masons' wives. Some weeks later his lordship politely inquired where the mason had buried his wife. "There," said the mason, pointing to a freshly set pier stone. He had mixed her ashes in the mortar. "You are very rare and precious to God," the bishop humbly replied. -By James Wilde
Just as economists have long predicted would happen, the decontrol of energy prices not only has made consumers more cautious about wasting precious fuel but has also spurred industry to search much harder for new supplies. At more than $4.30 per thousand cubic feet (as compared with $1.42 in 1974), natural gas prices have reached a level at which wildcatters can dig wells deeper than ever before and yet still turn a profit if a well proves productive...