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Wearing combat fatigues and toting a .22-cal. rifle, Robert Wickes, 24, stormed into a junior high school social-studies class in Brentwood, N.Y., one day last month and took 22 pupils hostage. By the time the subsequent confrontation ended nine hours later, Wickes, a recently fired substitute monitor, had critically wounded one student, nicked the school principal in the face and shot himself dead. Within a week, the Brentwood school district was under siege once again, this time by lawyers announcing they would file suits on behalf of some of the children held hostage. So far, the parents...
...hear its residents tell it, the agricultural community of Watsonville, Cal. Isn't a very special town. Main Street is lazy in the daytime. Only a few small stores dot each side of the road. There is only one movie theatre, and for entertainment, Watsonvillers usually have to travel about 10 miles to Santa Cruz...
...late-night bull sessions, they have no grounding in reality. But they are just a sampling of the brazen assertions offered in two new books, The Chemistry of Love by Michael Liebowitz, a psychiatrist at Columbia, and Science and Moral Priority, by Roger W. Sperry, a psychobiologist from Cal Tech. In fact, it seems that these two scientists, who have had much success in the labs, have a rather inflated idea of what science can do. Both men have been blinded by their own successes into thinking that they can begin to solve society's most intractable problems. Liebowtiz...
Although the Crimson did not fair particularly well in the scorer's column, it was up against teams that boasted not only talent but also experience. Cal-Berkeley had been involved in 23 contests, prior to playing Harvard in the Crimson's opener...
Should the team beat Syracuse, a more experienced Harvard squad will have to win two more rounds--MCATs and weddings not withstanding--to reach the Nationals and perhaps another go at Cal-Berkeley...