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SINCE THE 1950s, the 23 colleges that make up the Ivy Overlap Group have met annually to adjust financial aid packages for students who applied to more than one member of the group. Last month, the Overlap schools decided not to hold their annual meeting...
...more stressful than departure," cautions Meg Falk, deputy director of the Navy's family- support program. Typically, the returning troops will career from euphoria to a baffled recognition that time has not stood still in their absence: children have grown, spouses have become more independent. It's difficult to adjust. "We encourage them to be an honored guest in the home for a while rather than come charging in to take over," says Marine Chaplain J.S. Kirstein, who oversees a homecoming-counseling program at the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point...
Over time, most families adjust. After putting her husband "on a pedestal," Laura Root of Sterling, Ill., is looking forward to the shock of gritty reality: "I can't wait to have a fight and get back to normal." Military support services have moved into high gear to alert families to the dangers lurking ahead. Says the Navy's Falk: "We want them to understand that all this is normal...
National smoking-cessation programs also provide clever techniques to help people adjust to life without a cigarette dangling from their mouth. Smokenders, based in Connecticut, explains that a person puffs about 10 times for every cigarette smoked, or 200 times a day for every pack. With this in mind, the group teaches people to brush and floss after each meal in order to "give mouths plenty of that attention they're missing," says seminar director Charlotte Tausz. She also suggests "ways of engaging in noncaloric pucker responses" like sipping water through a straw or sucking on ginger root and cinnamon...
...benefits and training. The services set higher admission standards; the percentage of recruits with high school diplomas is now more than 96%, in contrast to 65% in 1973. Revamped procedures for evaluating officers and enlisted men have been put into place and rigidly enforced. Soldiers who do not quickly adjust to military life or perform well enough to earn promotions within five years are washed out of the services. Says Waller: "If you don't perform at a certain level, we don't want...