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...decade ago by Caltech's Roger Sperry. Researchers have subsequently found that the brain's left hemisphere, which controls the right side of the body, is predominantly involved with analytical thinking. The right, which controls the left side of the body, is primarily responsible for artistic endeavor and intuition...
...fire Maguire for professional misconduct under political pressure, this terse paragraph appeared in the Short Circuits column of the April 14 Boston Globe: "Former Rep. Peter Cloherty of Brighton, a 'public relations' consultant for Maguire Associates engineering firm, is using Congressman Thomas P.O'Neill's name in his endeavor to swing a big contract for his client...
...Manhattan, president of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America: "The women's groups have always espoused the 'Don't admit you can type philosophy.' And I don't appreciate them acting as if secretarial work is the lowest form of human endeavor. Sisterhood across class lines is a myth." Nor do many blue-collar women share the white-collar feminist's interest' in rising to high-level jobs. "We're laundry workers, X-ray technicians and the like," explains Elinor Glenn, of North Hollywood, Calif., a member of Local...
...first a hostage, then an accomplice. Captain Tanner (Ben Johnson), the cop who organizes the comical pursuit of the miscreants, must ride herd on his trigger-happy associates. He must also keep the inevitable crowds of reporters and television crewmen from turning events into a media circus. In neither endeavor is he entirely successful...
...growth rate has been in large part encouraged by the Athletic Department, whose director, Robert B. Watson '37, often says students should spend time in an athletic endeavor...