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...longer tolerate Harvard's employment conditions. Efforts to league with District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America surfaced at both the Medical School and in Cambridge. Technical and clerical workers in the Medical Area--most of them at the Med School, the School of Public Health, and the Dental School--are already affiliated with District 65 and will soon petition the National Labor Relations Board for union certification...
...every morning before work at the Med School, the School of Public Health and the Dental School, a handful of secretaries/organizers leaflet their co-workers and distribute petitions...
...many artificial parts was lawyer Frank Tull. His teeth had been fashioned for him and fitted to his jaws by a doctor of dental surgery ...He had a silver plate in his skull to guard a hole from which a brain tumor had been removed. One of his legs was made of metal and fiber; it took the place of the flesh-and-blood leg his mother had given him in her womb ...In his left arm, a platinum wire took the place of the humerus . . . One hundred years after he died they opened up his coffin. All they found...
Some plant owners see their specialists on a regular basis, rather like the twice yearly dental checkup. In West Hollywood, Lynn and Joel Rapp, who run a plant store called Mother Earth, provide regular service to casual growers and chronically worried plantochondriacs alike, charging $35 and up for weekly sessions of care and feeding of a customer's indoor garden. The emphasis is on keeping a weather eye out for disease or what the Rapps call "preventive medicine." "Mealy bugs and scale are in the air like cold germs," they warn, "Every time you open your door or window...
Last November, 140 of 162 firstyear students in the combined Dental School-Medical School class we steeled for a fight to return the first two and a half years, or preclinical training, to pass/fail grading. A few months earlier the faculty had voted to add two more ranks to a five-year old experiment at pass/fail grading. So the marking system the students were fighting was a four-point (excellent-pass-marginal-fail) system...