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...trial at Buddhist living was the latest experiment in learning at California's far-out, freedom-loving Pacific High School. A private school ten miles south of Palo Alto (tuition is scaled to income, averages $900 a term), Pacific High tries to stimulate youths who found conventional education too restrictive or boring with the tempting lure of total freedom. Students choose their own hours, classes and teachers and even sit on the board of trustees. At the end of a course, they get gentle advisory evaluations rather than grades -and are encouraged to tell their teachers precisely what they...
...stricken with a severe viral inflammation of the heart (viral myocarditis) ten years ago. Recently the inflammation had not been active, but the heart had become enlarged, more scarred and fibrous. Kasperak (pronounced Ka-spair-ak) quit his job as a Cleveland steelworker and retired to East Palo Alto, Calif. After a November episode of heart failure, he was admitted to Stanford Medical Center on Jan. 5, in desperate plight. When Kasperak asked his wife, Feme, what she thought about a transplant, she gave what has fast become the standard answer of the Barnard era: "Go ahead-I want...
...neurosurgeon phoned Palo Alto, and White soon got a call from Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr., pioneering head of Stanford's cardiovascular unit, a fellow resident with Cape Town's Dr. Barnard at the University of Minnesota and the developer of the heart-transplant technique first used by Barnard. Shumway asked about a possible transplant. White talked it over with his children, Judith, 18, and Richard, 12. He also consulted Virginia's mother. They all said...
Last week scientists moved a step closer to making the dream possible. In Palo Alto, two biochemists at the Stanford University School of Medicine reported that they had successfully synthesized a virus that could both infect bacteria and reproduce itself...
...Stephen W. DeYoung of Adams and Rochester, N.Y.; Richard S. Ellis of Winthrop and Dorchester; and also Irwin Gaines of Lowell and New Rochelle, N.Y.; Ira G. Greenberg of Dunster and Miami, Fla.; Walter Jaros of Adams and Great Neck, N.Y.; and Michio Kaku of Leverett and Palo Alto, Calif...