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...Sloan Professor of Meteorology Richard S. Lindzen '60. His specialty is global warming, which he thinks is bunk. The business world and conservatives who oppose emissions standards love him for this--Fortune (?) magazine even featured him in a cover issue last spring...
When internist Paul Shekelle was in medical school in the 1970s, the gentle art of chiropractic was widely viewed as bunk: heir to the tradition of ! bloodletting and rattlesnake oil. The American Medical Association's committee on quackery had branded the practice an "unscientific cult," and medical- school professors had obediently followed suit. The reluctance of the so- called back-crackers to submit their technique to the scrutiny of hard science served only to reinforce the official scorn. Recalls Shekelle: "They were seen as hucksters and charlatans trying to dupe the public into paying for useless care...
Others, however, had more mundane concerns in mind. "Get rid of the bunk beds," Tanya E. Kean '95 said. "I know I'm going to fall off in the middle of the night," she added. In a similar vein, Donald D. Lewis '95 said, "I tried to take a hot shower but there was no hot water. We need hot water...
...first the olim (Hebrew for immigrants) must be assimilated, a task for which the government remains critically unprepared. Officials warn that available shelter will run out by March, despite plans to purchase 33,000 mobile homes and to bunk at least 100,000 new arrivals at 21 army bases. So far only a few thousand Soviet Jews have moved to the West Bank, but government incentives are luring other Jews there in search of cheaper housing. Last week Absorption Minister Yitzhak Peretz called for the creation of tent cities to help house the 400,000 immigrants expected this year...
During the summer session, students bunk down in a Davidson dorm and are awakened each morning at 6 by one of the 19 college-age counselor-mentors who live there with them. The schedule is intensive: classes run from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., and youngsters are required to be in their rooms doing homework until 10 p.m. The packed curriculum includes lessons twice a week in leadership, spiritual development and "wellness," a catchall term for such subjects as sexuality and drug use. "Students can't graduate if they're pregnant or addicted," explains wellness instructor Georgia Ringle...