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...ground that he had been passed over in favor of less qualified minority applicants. The decision, issued in 1978, approved affirmative action but rejected rigid quotas based solely on race. This June, Bakke will graduate from Davis and move on to a residency in anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Bakke did not discuss his appointment with the press. Fellow class members, however, gave him the loudest cheer at the ceremony in which 101 seniors picked up their future assignments...
Less than a minute later, Cook scored himself on a breakaway, the first and last ordinary goal he would tally before beginning his clinic on "How to Score From Impossible Positions...
...rule, which is scheduled to go into effect next month, would require parents to be notified whenever children under the age of 18 receive prescription contraceptives from a family planning clinic using federal funds. In question are the pill, intrauterine devices and the diaphragm. After notifying parents that their daughter had received contraceptives, a clinic would have to verify receipt of the notice before dispensing additional drugs or devices...
Simply put, the new regulation would probably discourage sexually active teenage women from taking advantage of family planning clinics, most of which receive some degree of federal support Relying on mere common sense, experts in the field agree that those young people will neither begin bringing up contraception with the folks over dinner nor curb their sexual activity at the behest of Ronald Reagan. Alternate sources of contraceptives are available, but most adolescents patronize the clinic in the first place because they do not have access to a private doctor or because they intelligently desire effective methods to supplement those...
Before being appointed to his job last year, Hayes, 48, was for eight years director of a hypertension clinic in Hershey, Pa. There he observed the baneful effects of salt and learned to his frustration that patients ordered by their doctors to go on low-salt diets were unable to comply, even if they tried. Says he, "I might tell the Pennsylvania Dutch, for instance, that they could have their sauerkraut if they watched their sodium from other foods." But, he notes, they couldn't tell how much was in the other foods...