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...blunt fact," Bok stated, "is that most [medical] students today are getting an education that is far too narrow to prepare them for the challenges that await them in their working lives." Bok offered praise for a controversial new pilot program under development at the Medical School, which will offer an alternative to the traditional med school curriculum of two years of classroom study, and then two years of clinical training...
...emphasize his concern for the plight of Indochinese refugees, John Paul also traveled 56 miles southeast from Bangkok to the Phanat Nikhom camp, where about 18,000 Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians await resettlement. As heavily armed Thai soldiers kept watch, the Pope repeatedly blessed the refugees. "I want you to know of my love," said the Pope. It is a message that he is a clearly taking to the ends of the earth...
...possibilities are as volatile as the chemicals. As landfills close and air-pollution rules stiffen, the U.S. continues to produce some 275 million metric tons of poisonous wastes each year, and millions of metric tons still await disposal. Concerned citizens across the nation, although they agree that hazardous materials should be disposed of somewhere, answer Ruckelshaus' reasoning with the acronym NIMBY: Not in My Backyard...
Parallel processing, however, is not without drawbacks. Without proper programming, the separate units could slow to a "deadly embrace" if they must await information still passing through another unit. Experts in parallelism have nevertheless claimed to be approaching a processing speed that exceeds the fastest theoretical rate possible with a "von Neumann" processor by a factor...
...They wrote up a script which included several different symbolic choices as part of what was essentially a video game except that the viewer would make choices between turning down a street to follow a flying dollar bill or stopping into an exciting-looking disco where love seems to await...