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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which ACT introduced major changes into the MCATs two years ago provides an interesting comparison with ETS's methodology. Five years before the change, ACT began testing experimental questions in preparation. "This was a long, gradual process, and the med schools knew about it from the start," Sentress, of ACT, said...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Facing the Test: Grad School as Statistical Uncertainty | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

...Congress passed the Rehablitation Act, which set guidelines, implemented in 1977, to accomodate disabled and handicapped students...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin and Susan D. Chira, S | Title: Harvard on the Hill | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

Burke Simmerman, a staffer on Stagger's committee, said last week he believes a combination of administrative and House pressure will force Kennedy to take action on the Senate bill. The House will act on the bill soon, he said, and if the bill passes, some action will have to follow on the Senate side...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Red Tape and DNA | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

Kennedy and Sen Adlai Stevenson III '52 (D-Ill.) have already explored an alternative to legislation. They sent a letter in late May to Joseph A. Califano Jr., secretary of HEW, asking him to consider the possibility of using section 361 of the Health and Public Safety Act, which would enable him to impose the NIH guidelines on all DNA research without special legislation...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Red Tape and DNA | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

...audience for his views. Solzhenitsyn's criticism of the Soviet government and his advocacy of a return to imperial absolutism earned him expulsion from his home country in 1974, and widespread publicity for his views; his subsequent denunciations of Western nations for what he sees as their failure to act against Soviet abuses of human rights have received less attention, however...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Solzhenitsyn, Giamatti, Nine Others Receive Honoraries at Commencement | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

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