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...proposed curriculum makes a commendable effort to cure the principal defect of the General Education program. Under the present system, categories such as "Humanities" and "Social Sciences" are simply too broad to capture any coherent educational goals...

Author: By Derek C. Bok, | Title: Bok on the Core | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

...peccadilloes escape the attention of officials? Dr. De Corte, who instigated the investigation that uncovered the murders, suggested that there had been a conspiracy of silence about the nun. She had finally been suspended last August and dispatched to a Ghent hospital, where she underwent an unsuccessful drug cure. Someone -police suspect the roommate, who visited her at the hospital-provided drugs during her stay. At a press conference, Dr. De Corte revealed that in January, when she returned unchanged, the geriatric-ward nurses decided to confront the hospital administrator with their growing diary of horrors. "When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Nun's Story | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Economists today generally agree on one point: many of their old ideas do not work well in controlling that endemic modern problem, stagflation. A stiff dose of Government spending, prescribed by Britain's late Dr. John Maynard Keynes to cure depression, often leads to an inflation high. The monetarist medicine formulated by Dr. Milton Friedman ?take a slow, steady increase of money supply?often produces the economic blahs. The radical surgery of wage-price controls is widely recognized as a palliative at best or, at worst, counterproductive quackery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Search for Stagflation Remedies | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...saying it's a cure," Wick said, but he added that L-dopa could be used with other agents in chemotherapy...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Cancer Study Nears Possible Breakthrough | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...does the cure really come from chymopapain? Many U.S. doctors have their doubts. They note that by far the commonest forms of low-back pain involve muscles, ligaments or tendons rather than discs; these can usually be treated best with rest, physiotherapy and regular exercise. Many of the claimed chymopapain cures, the critics say, are the result of a dramatic placebo effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Great Papaya Fracas | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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