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serve as an indication of our understanding of the process componentof science, some interesting questions can be raised."To us, this seems to be an improper inference to be drawn from

the data. If the author is correct in his earlier assertion that theword process is used to denote both ends and means in scienceeducation, we believe he could expect confusion and lack of agreementbetween respondents when he asks them to use a classification categoryno more rigorously defined than ’process-centered objective.’We would agree with the author that the data supports the notion

that the respondents have difficulty choosing ’process-centered objec-tives’; however we cannot accept the suggestion that this reflectsconfusion in the minds of the respondents about the term ’process.’We would assert that a group of people who would be in full agreementabout the meanings which the word ’process’ can have in scienceeducation, could still be unable to reach agreement on the classificationof the objectives provided using the categories suggested.We are fully in sympathy with the respondent who wrote ’I am

still not going to answer in the exact way you intended for I cannot.’

REFERENCES

1. JOHN F. NEWPORT, (1974)�"A Comparison of Viewpoints on Process-centeredInstructional Objectives/’ School Science and Mathematics, LXXIV (7): 614-620.

2. JOHN F. NEWPORT, (1972)�"Process: Ends or Means or Both?", Science Education,56(2): 139-141.

PHYSICIST ADVOCATES MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS TOSATISFY ENERGY NEEDS IN U.S.

If we do not start building more nuclear power plants and mining morecoal in the United States, we face permanent recession and depression, massunemployment, and social upheaval, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist said.Hans Bethe, one of the world’s most respected physicists, believes the U.S.cannot afford to rely on oil-producing countries for her energy needs overthe next 25 years.He predicted that as world oil supplies become more scarce, the prices

will go up. Nations in Western Europe and Japan, who have few alternativesources of energy, will be buying up Arab oil, he said. If the United Statesenters into the competition for world oil, it will only drive the prices upand bring bankruptcy to Western Europe and Japan. "With these countriesbankrupt, trade with them ends, and then we cannot afford to pay for Araboil either," Dr. Bethe said.

Dr. Bethe agrees with President Ford that we must increase our miningof coal from 600 million tons in 1973 to one billion tons by the 1980’s.But coal alone will not satisfy U.S. energy needs. Dr. Bethe said we

must add to the current 50 nuclear power plants by building 200 more overthe next 10 years and increasing it to 500 to 700 by the year 2000.