James W. Grimes, Governor and Senator

James W. Valentine

Jim Valentine went to college on the GI Bill (a WWII veterans privilege) and has been there ever since; at present he is Professor of Integrative Biology, Emeritus, at UC Berkeley. His early research was on what is now called macroecology, working with fossil marine faunas, leading to a book, Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Marine Biosphere. Those studies continue today, chiefly with colleague...

Book Review: The Teaching Gap by James W. Stigler and James Hiebert

Additional comments — Senator

As well as joining the comments of my Coalition colleagues in the Dissenting Report, I would like to highlight an obvious issue that has seemingly been avoided at all costs by the proponents of these recommendations—the potential to introduce optional preferential voting. The language used to support or justify the Labor proposal as outlined in Recommendations 25 and 26 is Orwellian. 'Saving' v...

Vermont senator Leahy advocates SALT I I

WASHINGTON (A P ) The State Department, declaring that leftist guerrillas in El Salvador may launch a new offensive, announced Monday a *25 m illion increase in m ilitary aid and a 20-man increase in U.S. m ilitary tra in ing experts fo r that country. Spokesman W illiam Dyess said the aid w ill include additional he licop­ ters, vehicles, surveillance equip­ ment and small arms. The additional...

Hydro Turbine and Governor Modelling

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