It's extremely dry. Open up any chemistry book, it's awful. Everybody can do the volcano, everybody can do some of the science experiments where things flash and you get puffs of smoke. That's fun, it's entertaining for the kids, but it really doesn't drive home any of the principles. -Harry Orf

 

It's extremely dry. Open up any chemistry book, it's awful. Everybody can do the volcano, everybody can do some of the science experiments where things flash and you get puffs of smoke. That's fun, it's entertaining for the kids, but it really doesn't drive home any of the principles.


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It's extremely dry. Open up any chemistry book, it's awful. Everybody can do the volcano, everybody can do some of the science experiments where things flash and you get puffs of smoke. That's fun, it's entertaining for the kids, but it really doesn't drive home any of the principles.

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What everyone wanted, and what Scripps needed, was certainty ... and that's what we got.

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It's a water cleanup effort. It's not a hazardous cleanup.

Harry Orf

That is not going to happen this century unless we get more kids interested in science. We have 39 of the 50 best scientific institutions in the world. But U.S. enrollment is down and foreign enrollment is up. We have to change that if we want to be the innovators of the future.

Harry Orf

The method we're adopting is we're going to be proactive. I think we've demonstrated that just by being proactive and using other methods of communication, both physically traveling and using the Internet and e-mails, we've been able to establish [links].

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