Word: dana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PONTIAC, MICH. Racial confrontations, the bombing of buses and a school boycott made Pontiac a national symbol of white resistance to busing in 1971. Since then, tempers have cooled, and School Superintendent Dana Whitmer considers the busing program, which includes 15,500 of the city's 20,193 public school students, a qualified success. He concedes that overall test scores in reading and math have declined slightly because high-achieving white students from affluent families have left the district. But Whitmer maintains that individual achievement for both blacks and whites has remained the same and that "the outlook is good...
...artist's conception of the Dana Building that Dr. Emil Frei III has on his office wall closely resembles the actual building, which you can see out the window near the Children's Hospital, between Francis and Binney Streets in Boston. Frei is director of the Sidney Farber Center for the study of cancer, which will take up the new and angular black building that is a grim but gleaming testament to the gravity of the disease it was built...
...Dana building is funded largely by the National Cancer Institute, which just last week extended another $5 million to the Farber center for completion of the facilities. It is a Harvard teaching hospital and will have 100 beds for patients. The center is operating now on an outpatient basis, accepting about 25,000 visits a year from cancer patients...
...David S. Rosenthal, assistant professor of medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and a hematologist, says it is significant that three of Harvard's teaching hospitals--the Brigham, Beth-Israel, and the new Dana Center--have adopted the same protocol for treatment of Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph tissue. But this does not mean a definitive cure, Rosenthal says; only a high probability of cure at certain stages in the cancer...
Coordination of the multitude of Harvard clinicians at the Dana Center will be difficult, Isselbacher says, especially as there may be some disputes over who "gets" certain patients for study. Obsession with a cure, however, Isselbacher indicates, is delusory, as no doctor's individual research is likely to produce the answer. Such obsession, Isselbacher says, is not the proper attitude with which to view an academic field that is so broad-based. Besides, Isselbacher says, "The natural history of the disease is such that, it isn't like pneumonia, that in just two weeks you can find out whether Drug...