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...Very little, beyond the latitudes they inhabit and the way they pronounce three consonant sounds. Language differences are tantamount to those of a person from Atlanta and one from Boston. Racial and religious characteristics among the ethnic Vietnamese, who comprise some 85 per cent of the country's population, are virtually undifferentiated. Tribal minorities, who generally inhabit the interior highlands in both the North and South, show a wide diversity of language and culture...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: Answers | 4/12/1978 | See Source »

Group B streptococcus infections strike four of every 1000 babies, about 15,000 cases a year. Thirty per cent of those infected die despite antibiotic therapy, and many that live suffer severe neurologic disorders...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: New Vaccine | 4/12/1978 | See Source »

...federal government has reduced its grant to Radcliffe's National Direct Student Loan (NDSL) program for '78-'79 by about 45 per cent, because the Financial Aid Office underspent NDSL funds in '76-'77, leaving a $51,000 surplus, Martha C. Lyman, acting director of financial aid, said yesterday...

Author: By Maxwell Gould, | Title: Government Cuts Radcliffe Loan Funds | 4/11/1978 | See Source »

...give the apartheid system through the labor practices they employ in South Africa. While racist labor policies certainly constitute a significant aspect of American corporate complicity in apartheid, they divert attention from the bigger issues of U.S. corporate involvement. U.S. corporations employ a total of less than 1 per cent of the South African black labor force, so any improvement in American labor practices will have virtually no effect on the great mass of South African blacks. The ACSR almost completely disregards the larger, more overarching ways in which these companies provide crucial support to the Vorster government, by supplying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abdication On South Africa | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Over the past 25 years, the percentage of women in the graduating class of the Law School has increased from 2 per cent in 1953 to 5 per cent in 1969 and 30 per cent in this year's class...

Author: By William J. Berry, | Title: Law School Alumnae | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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