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...council postponed for a week a vote on the school committee's request for funding of the $10-million project to reconstruct the Kennedy and Roberts schools on the motion of Councilor Leonard J. Russell...
While it will take years to fulfill all its plans for a more rapid deployment of U.S. forces to meet a Persian Gulf crisis, the Pentagon request includes $887 million this fiscal year and next to build eight new KC-10 advanced tanker planes for the Air Force, put new engines in half of the nation's 517 KC-135 Stratotankers and buy seven Boeing 707s. Other funds would be used to convert eight commercial cargo ships to fast Navy resupply vessels. There are also funds to lengthen the runways at the U.S.-leased military base on Britain...
...least half a dozen top scientific organizations have issued statements warning that scientific creationism is not scientific. Should school boards and legislatures yield to the creationists' innocuous-sounding request for equal time? The answer seems to be no-not if they want pupils to learn biology, as the subject is understood today. The relation of science and morality is an important matter. Creationism may belong in social studies or the history of religion, but it should not be pushed into biology classes or textbooks, especially not by legislative fiat. As celebrated Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky put it: "Nothing in biology...
...addition, officials at the University of Poznan--which dismissed Baranczak in 1977, ostensibly because of his political activities--reinstated him, reportedly at students' request...
...representatives of the organization, whose request for a campus Third World center last spring prompted President Bok to form the Gomes Committee, said last night the group could no longer support the Foundation because it would stress race relations and participation of whites instead of minority needs and Third World student participation...