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Part-Time Professors. Mainly because of dismally low salaries, most Latin American faculties consist of part-time teachers whose main interest is in their outside jobs in law, medicine or politics. At San Marcos, only 57 of 1,344 professors teach fulltime, have little opportunity or incentive to do scholarly research. In inflation-ridden Brazil, where professors seldom make more than $200 a month, university teachers moonlight on two or three different jobs to make ends meet. Understandably, a Buenos Aires student complains: "It is very difficult to study with professors who very often have less knowledge than those being...
Biology students and scientists will study animal behavior and the relationship of plants and animals to their environment at the Concord Field Station. This outdoor laboratory will consist of 700 acres in the Estabrook Woods in Concord and a separate tract of 70 acres in Bedford...
Straw Hat As usual, summer theaters consist of young aspiring actors entirely surrounded by a few Broadway veterans and hordes of movie-TV refugees with more or less recognizable names. Some of the names...
...Shrug at Race. The people, in Malawi's case, consist of 4,000,000 blacks, 12,000 Asians and 7,000 whites. Though the whites hold the best civil service jobs and run the army and police force, race relations are harmonious. To complaints that blacks should be running more of the show, Banda only shrugs that they will-when they are skilled enough. "I will not Africanize," Banda said last week, "just for the sake of Africanization...
...document itself is a rambling, 600-page manuscript, written by the 10th century Moslem theologian, Abd-al-Jabbar. About 140 pages of his text consist of an Arabic translation of a much older Syriac account of Nazarene beliefs, probably dating from the 5th century and presumably written by members of the sect. The Nazarenes, who claimed descent from Jesus' first disciples, were driven out of Palestine into Syria around 62 A.D. after a bitter quarrel with other Christians...