Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is a little girl, Texas-blond and puppy-dog eyes. Melanie Ann Brockington is the national poster child for the 1979 March of Dimes. "Although Melanie is paralyzed from the waist down, she walks well with the aid of leg braces and crutches. Like many girls of her age--eight--Melanie is a lively, independent youngster who enjoys dancing, playing with her numerous friends, reading and listening to Shaun Cassidy albums...
Barbara Mishkin, the former staff director of the commission on human subjects, said yesterday she was disappointed with some aspects of the proposals, particularly the lack of an age limit after which the experiments would need the child's consent. "Children should be given the opportunity to consent as a matter of simple justice," she said...
Government policy changes which may affect the budget next year include the increase in social security taxes and the raised mandatory age of retirement, Skocpol said. Harvard may have to spend more to pay older professors at the top of the salary scale, if they take advantage of the higher mandatory retirement age...
...largely one of "academic excellence," not the idea that everyone should try to get "two or three years of college." There are only some 30-odd universities in the U.K. (polytechnics are still rightly or wrongly considered one grade down), and perhaps only 10 per cent of the college-age population get there. The education they receive is correspondingly more concentrated and structured than that of their U.S. counterparts. All secondary education--whether state-run, or private at the misnamed "public schools," is rooted in competition: despite the introduction of comprehensive state schools which take all abilities (and thus avoid...
...further advanced. Ph.D. candidates, especially in humanities or social sciences; who have chosen their research topic will be left to get on with it. They may or may not see their supervisor regularly--but there will be few or no "programmes," graduate classes, seminars or the like. At the age of 21 or 22 you will be accorded the respect of being an independent scholar, and left to produce the goods. It can be frightening--but also exhilarating...