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Unlike the organizations which guide undergraduates in their community volunteer work, there is no structured way for faculty and/or corporate Harvard to interact with the city. While there is no barrier to involvement, there is also no formal process by which faculty can discover whether their teaching and research needs might be satisfied by working in Cambridge...
...Swiss physician and one of Messner's former climbing partners, who conducted a series of tests on high-altitude climbers in a hypobaric chamber. Messner emerged with results similar to those of an above-average marathon runner. He and other mountaineers who had successfully penetrated the 8,000-m barrier proved to have what Oelz calls a "rather active respiratory center," meaning that as the air gets thinner, their rate of breathing involuntarily increases. "He's obviously got a superb high-altitude physique," says Chris Bonington, who in 1975 led a successful British expedition to Mount Everest, "but what...
...Soviet bureaucracy has not been the only barrier to progress. Soviet officials complain that the incessant squabbling within American negotiating teams between moderates and hard-liners makes progress glacially slow. At recent bargaining sessions, says one well-placed U.S.S.R. official, the tensions and disagreements on the American side were "if not right out in the open, then very easy for us to detect." Some of Reagan's advisers are dissatisfied too, and had begun to discuss opening some sort of "back channel" to Moscow before Gorbachev in effect proposed the ultimate back channel, one running through the top leaders...
...Says Geoff Crowley, a senior vice president of Presidential Airways, a year-old low-fare carrier based in Washington: "We wouldn't be able to get started now. Wall Street is casting too questioning an eye on new airlines." David Hinson, chairman of Chicago-based Midway Airlines, cites another barrier. Says he: "All the infrastructure, like airport gates, has been consumed by the big boys...
Indeed, it was highly unusual for someone likeJohn to attend university--his family had nouniversity connections, and they were middle-classrather than gentry, a barrier that was usuallyinsurmountable at the time...