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...DIED. Joseph Kauffman, 84, an architect of the Peace Corps, which was launched by President Kennedy in 1961; in Madison, Wisconsin. As the first director of training for the volunteer foreign-aid force, he designed the boot camp-like regimen carried out for recruits at 70 college campuses across the U.S. Among its features: 7 a.m.-to-10 p.m. workdays six days a week, and instruction in foreign languages, technical job skills and medical issues...
...episode of diarrhea, then it doesn't matter how well-off the parents are," he says. "That is a child who is on the road to death." ICDDR spends $20 million a year treating up to 150,000 patients, its budget financed mostly by grants from the government, international aid agencies and charities. At an average cost of $5 a day for each patient, the center stretches that money a long way. When the monsoon season begins, the hospital erects giant tents in its parking lot to cope with the extra patients. But the success of the hospital in Dhaka...
...Crimson even managed to capitalize on its offensive-minded opponents. With most men up front to aid in scoring, the MIT defense became lax in the final minutes. Capitalizing on this mistake with some quick passing, Harvard scored easy goals in transition...
...situation was also affected, to put it in simple terms, by the rise of science and the decline of religion. The most important rationale for tutors to live with students was so that they could aid their spiritual development. When the University lost faith in any agreed principles, it could not justify compelling students to adhere to any fixed ethics. In the name of science, any promulgation of a certain ethic labored under the stigma of what Isaiah Berlin called “the Cartesian condemnation,” attempting to justify all its findings scientifically and severely unable...
...humanities, which is to help people live better lives. It is all very well and good to read what Montaigne says, but unless you think about what it means to you, it is all just words. We now expect students to figure out things by themselves, without the aid of an involved teacher, who can not only redirect students to texts, but guide them through those that offer the most intelligent appraisals of human experience...