Television: The Most Exciting Game

The Search for Solutions, PBS, starts June 10,9p.m. E.D.T.

"Science moves, but slowly slowly," complained Tennyson, "creeping on from point to point." Just so, and generations of students have been unwilling to walk the tedious trail that might eventually lead to a career in the laboratory. The loss is society's, and the answer to the horrors of a Three Mile Island or a Love Canal is not clamping down on science, but training more and better scientists. This remarkable PBS series is a welcome attempt to answer that need. Science, it says, is not only the world's biggest game; it is...

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