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...toenail study will help the research team conclude within two to three years whether there is a relationship between seienium and cancer in humans, the spokesman said, adding, "Seienium is not necessarily a cure for cancer, but it may have a protective effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 10,000 Toenails | 3/9/1983 | See Source »

...trouble is that in our time the Redbook's emphasis on transmitting the Western cultural heritage, while appealing to many faculty, strikes many others as intellectual parochialism. Certainly the Cure makes room for the teaching of those books and those ideas--and many of its courses do just than. But even the Redbook had another emphasis as well: on what in cultivating "certain aptitudes...traits and characteristics of mind." During the decades since the Second World War, that goal has come to be expressed, in much of the arts and sciences, through the development of distinctive disciplinary modes of thought...

Author: By Phyllis Keller, | Title: L'Esprit de Core | 3/5/1983 | See Source »

What you are in what they did. By most meanings--student evaluation and enrollment, readiness of the faculty to teach courses in the Cure and to think up new ones for it-it seems to be alive and well. It's true that the Core curriculum does not attempt to say that some subjects or bodies of knowledge are more important than others. But it does say that certain basic skills and distinctive says of thinking are essential tools for acquiring the ability to learn, understand, and enjoy through one's life. In their own way, the Core courses introduce...

Author: By Phyllis Keller, | Title: L'Esprit de Core | 3/5/1983 | See Source »

...Tuesday installment of Bloom County, Berke Breathed makes it clear that Steve Dalla's alter-ego "fairy" is not a symbol of homosexuality but is instead a sort of conscience that is trying to cure Steve of his sexist "macho" complex. Only Dallas (and, it would appear, the Crimson senior executive board) equates sensitivity with homosexuality, and the ignorance he displays both in making this mental association and in disapproving of both kinds of behavior is precisely what makes Monday's installment (the one which The Crimson censored) funny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conscience | 3/4/1983 | See Source »

Long after penicillin became generally available as a cure for syphilis in 1953, the men were still denied treatment and allowed slowly to die. If the press had not brought the case to light in 1972, the experiment would have continued. Even after the story broke, federal officials argued for months about whether the government was authorized to give health care to the experiment's survivors; finally, Caper W. Wainbanger '35 who was then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare) ordered medical treatment...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Remembering History | 3/3/1983 | See Source »

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