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...landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that permitted Allan Bakke, 41, a white engineer, to be admitted to medical school at the University of California at Davis. Bakke, who claimed he was a victim of "reverse discrimination," had sued the university on the ground that he had been passed over in favor of less qualified minority applicants. The decision, issued in 1978, approved affirmative action but rejected rigid quotas based solely on race. This June, Bakke will graduate from Davis and move on to a residency in anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Bakke did not discuss...
Still, when a woman postpones child bearing, she increases the chance that she will not be fit when the time comes. "Her gamble," says Chicago Ob-Gyn Allan Charles, "is that she won't have diabetes or high blood pressure." Or, for that matter, arthritis, respiratory ailments, obesity or kidney disease. All of these conditions make pregnancy more difficult. Diabetes and hypertension, for example, can interfere with the normal development of the placenta. Though some of these ailments can be controlled by diet and medication, their incidence increases with...
...findings against social bias in the tests have drawn fire from consumer advocates Ralph Nader and Allan Nairn, who co-authored a 1980 report on test bias that led to legislation in New York State forcing partial disclosure of SAT results...
Entrepreneurs like Kloss often move restlessly from one field to another, starting new companies like an industrial Johnny Appleseed. S. Allan Kline, 61, is a physicist by training, so it is not surprising that he helped found Xicor, a company that makes memory chips for computers. Less expected was his development of a nutritional snack. New Generation Foods, which he founded in 1977, last year sold $3.6 million worth of Spicer's WheaTwists, a low-calorie, high-protein snack chip. Quips Kline: "I'm in the chips business: one edible, one inedible...
...fought, but quarrels over who keeps the children can be even rougher. A solution that has been gaining acceptance is joint custody, now available in some 20 states. Perhaps the ultimate in sharing was put together last month by Circuit Judge Charles Forster in Traverse City, Mich. Cheryl and Allan Church may go their separate ways, he said, but their three teen-age boys in a sense will get custody of the house. Under the plan, the ex-mates will move in and out each month. For the Churches, at least, the arrangement is perfect. Says Cheryl: "Nobody...