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...Harvard administrator has been able to justify the four-year Expos rule; some agree that it's destructive to the department. Many teachers say that as soon as they enter the program, they must prepare to leave. Teachers agree that it takes years to adjust to the format and demands of the Expos class; just as teachers grow comfortable with the program, they're kicked out the door. There are no provisions for excellent teachers to stay...
...said many cancer patients had died because their radiation dosages had been miscalculated. In 1982 the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary bought a computer programmed to determine precise dosages for cancer treatment. But it arrived minus an instruction manual. Senior physicist Margaret Grieveson assumed that a "correction factor" needed to adjust the dosages had not been programmed in. Unfortunately, it had. The result: in the years from 1982 to 1991, 1,045 patients received insufficient radiation. Four hundred and one died; 91 who are still alive have experienced a recurrence of cancer. "I believe some patients did die unnecessarily," said...
...funny about change--I usually resist it as long as possible. But when I actually go ahead and alter something, I adjust almost instantly. If I can reformat my expectations for my environment (i.e. feel at home at Harvard) I could certainly reformat my documents with an advanced word processor and use it competently...
Herbal medications take advantage of thenatural medicinal properties of plants, accordingto Lannon. Chinese elixirs, another form ofnatural medicine, adjust the body's energy levelto promote healing, he said...
...programs exist to help immigrants adjust to life in the United States. A xenophobic complex last manifested as a "great sucking sound" and the belief that everyone must face the same tough time that our ancestors faced give such aid a low priority. Quotas from the Immigration Act of 1921 and its successors still exist. Why do we fear those who would expand the markets of existing industries and create new ones? Only recent immigrants who have achieved a degree of success appear willing to fight such arcane measures of exclusion...