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...another, to restrict state funding for abortions. Through October 1977, Medicaid funds paid for an estimated 22,000 abortions in Massachusetts alone and more than 300,000 in the whole country. Medicaid has in fact saved state welfare agencies from having to dole out even more money than the cost of these abortions to take care of unwanted children...
Intimidating to aspiring doctors is the cost of medical education. Says Charles Fentress, of the Association of American Medical Colleges (A.A.M.C.): "Government loans and scholarships are drying up, and the soaring cost of medical school has to be a deterrent." Tuition at Georgetown University School of Medicine has risen to a staggering $12,500 a year, the highest in the nation. At other schools, says the A.A.M.C., tuition and fees run from $2,200 to $9,150 a year. Add to that the cost of room, board and books, and the burden becomes even more formidable...
Explains Father Joseph Walters, pre-med adviser at Notre Dame: "Students face borrowing $50,000 to finance medical school. Later, with the high cost of malpractice insurance, they would need an income of $5,000 a month to start a practice and pay back the debt. The opportunities of earning $60,000 a year right out of med school are rarely there...
These are only a few of the exotica cited by British Journalist Peter Watson, 35, as evidence of the increasing reliance of the U.S. armed forces on the work of psychologists. Indeed, studies done for the military cost $68 million this year, about 35% of all federally funded psychological research. In his new book, War on the Mind (Basic Books, $17.50), Watson says that the Pentagon's forays into psychology "outrank most other military research projects when it comes to cruelty, deception, ingenuity and sheer absurdity...
...major recipient is the new Billy Graham Center in Illinois, which will house the graduate school at Wheaton College (Graham's alma mater), an evangelism library and Graham archives. The fund gave the Graham Center $7.7 million last year, and will eventually provide most of its $15.5 million cost. The B.G.E.A. has been transferring some of its proceeds to the Dallas fund, but refuses to reveal how much...