Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Along with radiation, critics of the reactor program are alarmed about the effects of thermal pollution on marine life. The problem is that nuclear plants use cool water from rivers and bays, then return it hot. All steam-generated plants require cooling water-as do many other basic industries-but reactors can use as much as 35% more water because they use heat less efficiently than plants fueled by coal or oil. Heat decreases the dissolved oxygen content in the water, makes existing pollutants more toxic, disturbs the reproduction cycle of fish and spurs the growth of noxious blue-green...
...Governor and the state legislature for five months in 1947 while Curley was in jail, Hynes defeated the Boston boss in his own right two years later; he went on to serve until 1960, giving the city good, honest government and inaugurating a vast, urgently needed urban-renewal program...
...Fantastic Species. Such intriguing seminars for fifth-graders are now commonplace in schools using an experimental social studies program called "Man: A Course of Study." The one-year course was devised by Psychologist Jerome S. Bruner, director of Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies, Irven DeVore, professor of anthropology at Harvard, Asen Balikci, an anthropologist at the University of Montreal, and Peter B. Dow of Education Development Center Inc., the nonprofit Cambridge firm that produces the course materials. "We're trying to present a point of view," says Bruner. "We want to give children some appreciation of what...
...Mike is best remembered, though, as the demolition man of TV's explosive Night Beat interview show. It worked fine as a local New York program but became hypersensational when it went network on ABC. Wallace-in the one tape in his whole career that he would like to erase-egged Mobster Mickey Cohen into calling a police officer a "sadistic degenerate" and an "alcoholic." Libel suits for $3,000,000 followed; they were settled for much less, but within a year the series was dumped. Wallace became a sort of Sonny Listen of broadcasting: the mean...
Representatives of the Intertribal Council of Harvard met with Dean May on Friday to discuss the establishment of an American Indian Studies Program at Harvard...