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...spring, the Law School Student Council drew fire from a gay activist group for urging students to be tested for AIDS without discussing the drawbacks of having the test done at UHS. Meanwhile, UHS officials are discouraging students from being tested for AIDS at UHS if they do not belong to a high-risk group. At Dartmouth, health officials recently decided to allow students to be tested anonymously, says John H. Turco '70, director of the school's health services...
...Among the gains: two-thirds of Britons own their homes today, up from 50% when Thatcher assumed office. Car ownership has risen from 54% to 66%. The number of Britons who are stockholders has almost tripled, from 7% to 20%, and the number of those who consider themselves to belong to the middle class has increased from 30% of the population to roughly 50% over the past eight years. Inflation has been cut from 18% to 4%. The Thatcher government has privatized state enterprises valued at nearly $30 billion...
...adult female, permits a more accurate assessment. The length of the thigh bone is a gauge of height, and the relative length of the upper arm bone to the upper leg bone is a vital clue to body build. The remains, described in the British journal Nature last week, belong to a creature that lived about 1.8 million years ago and stood no more than 3 1/2 feet tall. Says Johanson, director of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley: "This may be the smallest hominid ever found...
...reportedly declared, "I think the church is a little out of touch with reality." The document has prompted serious debate, but so far it has moved the country no closer to a consensus on some profound ethical dilemmas. To whom, for example, does a child of surrogate birth really belong? Should a malformed fetus or infant (or any other patient in extremis) live or die? Who will make these decisions? And, more broadly, does ultimate moral authority lie with institutions such as church and state to codify and impose? Or, in a free society, are these matters of private conscience...
Throughout the life of American higher education, great institutions like this one have steadily grown from small local colleges to national universities and then to international seats of learning. In this evolution, our universities have simply followed in the path of the society to which they belong. For America too has grown from a collection of separate colonies preoccupied with local interests to a single nation shielded by oceans from foreign conflicts and finally to a great world power connected by political, commercial, and military links to events in every corner of the globe...