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...skies have seemed increasingly treacherous for commuter planes. The craft, defined as capable of carrying up to 30 passengers, have been involved in seven crashes and 56 deaths since November. By comparison, during the period 1980-86 commuter airlines averaged only 26 fatalities a year. Last week T. Allan McArtor, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, announced a six-month probe into what appears to be an ominous trend. FAA inspectors will single out the 20% of 173 U.S. carriers with the worst safety problems, then make in-depth field inspections of those airlines. One bit of suspicious evidence...
Harvard Professor of Psychiatry J. Allan Hobson believes that the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep stage, during which a person's eyes move quickly back and forth, is the most energetic phase of our sleeping unconsciousness. During that period, the body restores its metabolic order through the process of dreaming, which is now believed to be responsibile for more than just expressing our Freudian desires, according to Hobson...
...cross-examining Jones, attorneys for the University tried to show that Walters' separation from him, and not her job conditions, caused her emotional problems. Under questioning from Harvard attorney Allan Ryan, Jones said Walters had not mentioned her problems at work to him after their estrangement...
Such numbers provide reassuring proof that not all Harvard students are the self-centered, pre-professional yuppies Allan Bloom and William J. Bennett would like us to think. By funding 51 public service programs, PBH ensures that undergraduates will not isolate themselves behind the Yard's ivy walls but instead spread Harvard's resources in the community. The 94-year-old organization plays an important role in the lives of the underprivileged in Boston and Cambridge--operating programs such as summer camps, tutoring and free legal help for the poor...
Officially, of course, the shortage has not really endangered people's lives. "Often the level of T.L.C. that a patient expects -- the back rub, the hand holding -- doesn't get done in today's intense environment," says Allan Anderson, president of Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. "But I don't think there is any evidence that the quality of hospital care has deteriorated...