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...public service has inspired a wide variety of people to join the City Year team. The program has been able to tap a pool of recent college and professional school graduates to spur its fundraising effort. In fact, City Year was officially launched in late April at a spring benefit thrown by the Voluntary Fundraisers Association (VFA). VFA, which was founded by a group of young management consultants, teamed up with City Year to target more than 1000 people by mail, inviting them to attend a dance benefit or to contribute by mail...
...fitted by doctors or midwives and cost around $25 each, are equally effective in preventing pregnancy (failure rate: about 15%). Enthusiasts claim the cap has several advantages. For one thing, it is more durable: a diaphragm can tear and needs to be checked for holes regularly. But the chief benefit of the cap is that it allows greater sexual spontaneity and gratification. Women can wear it for up to 48 hours, compared with 24 hours for the diaphragm. And because the cap fits tightly and rarely leaks, the reintroduction of spermicide before intercourse is unnecessary. Declares Susan Jordan...
Warren argues that Senior Gift money is used to benefit particular undergraduate groups and activities that might otherwise be jeopardized. That may be true, but one need not be an economics major to figure out that a much more efficient way to help those groups is to donate directly to them, rather than sending the money through countless layers of Harvard bureaucracy...
Both East and West might make significant advances by expanding their modest contacts in high-tech fields. Says Multi-Arc Chairman Peter Flood: "If we were prepared to let them benefit from our production-engineering expertise in exchange for the scientific contribution they can make, the whole world would be better...
...Steven Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute, more than 400 Americans have received it. Though there have been some spectacular successes, IL-2 is clearly no cure for cancer. Five percent to 10% of patients experience complete remission, and more have partial ones. But the majority reap no benefit at all. Given the expense and the risks, the treatment has come in for some sharp criticism. Even so, University of Pennsylvania Oncologist Kevin Fox notes that IL-2 therapy is the only treatment that works at all on advanced melanoma and kidney cancer. Admits Rosenberg: "It's a treatment...