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Among the three groups, the candidates differ only slightly from each other. The Cambridge Convention has endorsed four candidates, an ideal affirmative action slate that includes the only two women and the only black in the school committee selection. Three of the slate members have graduated from or are now studying at Harvard. Glenn Koocher '71 sees himself as more pragmatic than the two women on the Convention slate. His leadership was crucial in the decision to combine Rindge Technical High with Cambridge High and Latin, producing a modern program in which students concentrate in one of five areas...
Therapists also differ widely about how the condition should be treated. The most common technique is behavior modification; its use is based on the assumption that agoraphobia is a habit to be broken. Treatment consists of gradually exposing the phobic patient to feared sit uations, first by having him imagine them, then by forcing him, for instance, to take longer and longer solo walks until the stress disappears. A more drastic technique, similar to throwing a baby into a pool to teach it how to swim, is known as "implosion"?a patient might be driven to a large empty...
Jerry Jeff and fellow country western singers differ from other songwriters telling about alienation because the characters in the country songs still have one place to go, a place where the community is still close-knit--the rural South. In rural states like Mississippi where there are few large cities and many small, fairly isolated towns, the sense of community is still intact. Most people work on small farms or in some small commercial enterprise. Work is organized at a personal level; everybody knows everybody else. There is a common set of social mores and values rooted in Biblical faith...
...parties differ in the extent of nationalization they say would best serve the nation, Moynod said. The Common Program does not specify the number of factories and industries to be nationalized to avoid conflict on this issue...
...names for them, as Clarke himself points out. Science fiction enthusiasts will enjoy comparing the critics' evaluation of Clarke's themes with their own, and newcomers to science fiction may have some questions about its nature answered, such as how the canons of sci-fi and mainstream literature differ, and for what reasons. By the way, the majority of contributors to this volume are English professors, not engineers. That in itself suggests how far down the road to respectability science fiction has come...