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...forbidding any use of the ocean floor for military purposes-which would force the U.S. to abandon the network of electronic devices that the Navy either has or intends to place on the seabed to keep track of submarine traffic. However, until there is agreement on limiting a much wider array of armaments, the U.S. is not likely to give up its seabed monitoring gear...
...Baltimore's urban-renewal program has concentrated from the start on the city's seediest areas, the Block has traditionally been regarded as more of a boon than a blight. Like New Orleans' French Quarter, it attracts hordes of free-spending tourists-and offers them a wider range of distractions. However, Baltimore's new city planner, Larry Reich, doubts its worth. "I'm convinced the Block isn't that much of an entertainment value for the city," he says. "I really think it has become an obsolete, tawdry thing of the past." Reich...
...door, four-passenger car is designed to beat back the invasion of imports. The Maverick is much lower and wider than the Volkswagen, which Ford executives call "the target car." It is also a bit thirstier-Ford claims about 22 miles per gallon v. the VW's 25 m.p.g. -and nearly two feet longer, measuring 179 in. from its broad nose to its short tail. But the Maverick is also several inches shorter than such "compacts" as Ford's Falcon, which has grown to 184 in. in length and $2,283 in price. Partly because more and more...
...inexplicable self-hatred, to a condition of permanent, sickening clumsiness. He knocks things over, breaks them, hurts himself. "In the kitchen he was carefully watched, and at the Whipples' round dining table, the chairs were always arranged so that Horace's arc of space was several degrees wider than the others'." With a few simple and subtle strokes, the author shows that Horace is not funny, as he seemed at first, or merely lovable, as he seemed next, but a boy who has stumbled to the very edge of sanity-and of life...
...Committee proposes individual admissions interviews, a student "ombudsman" in each department, critiques instead of straight grading, graduate workshops modelled after undergraduate tutorials, and wider Faculty involvement in these directions. Implementing these will require changes in attitude and structure in individual departments. Not all of the changes make sense in every department, of course. In the Natural Sciences, where students work more intimately with professors on research projects, the need for an "ombudsman" is not as great as it would be in a more diffuse department. Not is the proposal for abolishing grades as relevant to a science grad student...