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Harvard's efforts have not saved the project from struggling through its share of snags and disappointments. One chronic snag is the requirement that all funding go through the fiscal offices of Boston Public Schools, a process Grant described as causing enough red tape to make any simple project a lot of work. Several months ago, the state approved a $55,000 grant to the career development program, but Harvard still has not gotten any money. Somewhere on its journey through the public bureaucracy the contract got lost. As a result, the career development program has fallen behind schedule, Grant...
...influenza strain would pose no grave danger to healthy children or adults. Strains of flu cause more illness in their first year--and the illness they cause is more debilitating--than afterwards. To the elderly and to those with chronic illnesses, the prospect is frightening. To everyone else, the prospect is merely unpleasant. Moreover, the analogies to 1918 were misleading, since in that year's epidemic most deaths were caused by bacterial infections secondary to flu that now can be combatted with antibiotics...
...President-elect has said nothing at all about all those servicemen who received less than honorable discharges for acts of protest short of desertion, but related to their reluctance to wage the war. Some, for example, failed to carry out orders, became chronic malingerers or were insubordinate to superiors. No one knows just how many cases there are, since many of these discharges were made, often capriciously, for a wide array of reasons to get rid of unwanted soldiers. Some of the war-resister groups insist there were about 700,000 veterans with less-than-honorable discharges and that...
...town's predicament has worsened; there were five divorces in 1971 and 30 in 1975. "We're seeing a lot of stress-related symptoms," says Dr. Donald Haase, 53, one of the town's three physicians. "We're getting more cases of acute and chronic depression, and more gastrointestinal problems too." Lutheran Minister David Kupka, 36, likens the town's behavior to that of a family with a terminally ill patient: "First there's denial; then anger, depression, hostility; then bargaining; and finally acceptance." In Limbo. Silver Bay's children have responded with...
...ECONOMY. Though Carter has decided that the economy needs both a tax cut and more spending for job-creating programs, focused on areas of chronic unemployment, he has not yet determined the size of the package. But it will probably be about $20 billion, mostly in tax cuts for individuals. He also may invite corporate and labor leaders to the White House and urge voluntary restraint, without setting numerical guidelines, on wage and price increases...