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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, about half a dozen deal explicitly with women's experiences and only one or two do so from a feminist perspective. These few courses cannot possibly satisfy all comers. It is to be hoped that once this university realizes that it is a defect not to offer courses in women's studies, it will also understand that the female experience and/or a thorough acquaintance with feminist theory will have to be a prerequisite for some, though by no means all, of them...
This potentially calamitous defect is now being remedied. The Bern relay station will soon be eliminated. To replace it, the system will rely on straight line-of-sight radio signals sent through communications satellites that the U.S. and the Soviet Union have hurled into orbit. The new switching and linking system should be virtually fail-safe. If diplomacy could be similarly fine-tuned, there would probably be no need for a hot line in the first place...
Many cleft lips show the defect only on one side, some are in the middle, and some affect both sides. Millard wanted to work first on a simple, unilateral case. As a boy in North Carolina, he had been a rodeo fan and had learned to twirl a lariat. So during some friendly horseplay, he literally lassoed a ten-year-old Korean boy and lollipopped him into the medical hut. (His parents could not be reached for approval.) When the stitches were removed, the result was so good that the boy became a walking, talking testimonial to Millard...
Harelips and cleft palates, in one form or another, afflict one in about every 750 newborn children, or 5,000 a year in the U.S. alone. That they develop early in fetal life is clear, but beyond that no one knows the exact cause. It may be a genetic defect, the result of maternal malnutrition or infection, drugs, or a combination of these. Whatever the cause, as fetal tissues grow and form the lips, mouth and palate, something inhibits normal development. The result is a twisted, often grotesque distortion of the nose and a gaping cleft in the upper...
...there is no real danger that West Coast Democrats will defect or stay home in November. Said California Democratic National Committeeman Steve Reinhardt: "We're warming up to him slowly. But it's a lot easier to get excited about Carter while listening to Ford or Reagan than listening to Carter...