Word: programming
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...grasslands study fits into a larger framework: the International Biological Program. Organized by the International Council of Scientific Unions in 1964, I.B.P. involves 57 nations, most of which are concentrating on such problems as how to increase food production or control population. The U.S. has even bigger ambitions: 2,000 scientists are developing an entirely new approach to studying ecological problems, including human adaptability to different environments...
...complexity of the environment and proving how one part invariably affects others. Even so, the final goal of accurately predicting the result of any specific action is still far in the future. As Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch said when he threw his support behind the program: "Comparatively speaking, the moon shot was easy...
...most interesting high school in the U.S. today does not have a classroom it can call its own. But every week, some 30 to 40 school administrators come to Philadelphia to examine the Parkway Program high school...
...program began only a year ago as an effort on the part of Philadelphia's board of education to deal with overcrowding in the city's high schools. Someone suggested setting up a school that would use such cultural facilities as museums and libraries for classrooms. Since many of them are located on tree-shaded Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the project was forthwith dubbed the Parkway Program. To run it, the board hired John Bremer, a 42-year-old British educator who had been head of a community-controlled school district in New York...
...Location. Bremer briskly set about expanding the program far beyond its original blueprint. He established an auto-mechanics class in an auto-repair shop, a leatherworking class in a leather shop, a journalism course at the offices of the Evening Bulletin, and dozens of others that are taught on location...