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Although the U.S. no longer has a military draft, all men are required to register on their 18th birthday. So far, 10.4 million, or 96.2% of all eligible men, have done so. But 408,000 have not. Most universities take the position that they should not be called upon to act as the arm for Uncle Sam's finger. "It isn't in keeping with our mission as an institution of higher learning," says Nancy Jessup, a financial aid officer at the University of California. They note that it unfairly singles out students who need loans, while...
Andrew D. Metz '82, who majored in Physics at Harvard and who had planned to begin work as a nuclear researcher at MIT this week, died Sunday--his 22nd birthday--while mountain-climbing in the Adirondacks...
...know-how, private enterprise has introduced new marketing techniques to the hospital business. Cooper Medical Center in Camden, N.J., last January hired a plane to carry a streamer over Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia during a football game with the message: COOPER DOCTORS, YOUR OTHER WINNING TEAM. Some institutions give birthday parties for babies born in their hospitals in the hope of encouraging repeat visits. At Humana's Women's Hospital in San Antonio, which will open next summer, children visiting their newborn brothers and sisters will be entertained in a special "sibling room" equipped with games. Patients...
Prudent, fair-minded and humane, Walker roamed the West for 50 years, often living with Indians because, he said, "white people are too damned mean." Although the frontier echoed with violence, Walker favored adventure over fighting. Nearing his 50th birthday, he rode 800 miles from Santa Fe to Fort Leavenworth in an astonishing 23 days. The amateur naturalist was even interested in prairie dogs. On all fours he tried to capture one alive to obtain a study skin. A happy combination of luck, skill and attitude helped Walker to prevail over the wilderness; he died a proud and prosperous rancher...
...music video clip Beat It. The formula consists of putting the possessive form of the word star in front of another word and making it a story: star's pets, star's cars, star's hairdressers. Linking the main stories are short takes like a celebrity birthday register or a "Paparazzi" section in which stills are flashed on the screen of, say, Olivia De Havilland out for Sunday brunch in Beverly Hills...