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With better guidance from pre-med counselors, students are more accurately assessing their chances of getting into medical school. Ethan Schuman, 23, a senior with a 3.5 average (on a scale of 4) at Boston's Northeastern University, wanted to be a doctor but decided not to apply. "The word among students is that you need at least a 3.8 average before they look at you. I guess I was simply not ready to take the gamble of spending four years in college and then not making it into graduate school. The good part is that I am missing...
...Ethan R. Signer, professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who also called for release of information concerning cloning experiments, said cloning is "an abomination," because scientists may use this knowledge in an attempt to improve the human race by controlling hereditary factors...
Sophomore Ethan Cruvant, who led the Harvard scoring attack with five goals in the two games, said yesterday he was especially happy about the surprising victory over Yale...
Sally brings with her one possession, one consolation, one lifeline to the Brave New World she rather wishes she had been born into-her television set. James is a puritan: a beekeeper, a man who splits elm at 20° below zero, a myth maker whose hero is Ethan Allen, not the Fonz. James hates Snoopy, Coca-Cola, California, astronauts (they are there to "undo him") and, above all, television. One night James takes out his 12-gauge shotgun and blasts away at Sally's picture tube as if it were the devil's eye; when she objects...
...enemy gave out I was crazy and wholly unmanned, but my vitals held sound." It seems that Ethan Allen, 38, the argumentative hero of Fort Ticonderoga, is giving almost as much trouble to the British as he did when he was commander of the Green Mountain Boys. Seized last year after launching a premature and ill-considered attack on Montreal, Allen was shipped to a castle near Falmouth, England. He was not hanged, apparently because the British feared reprisals. He is now on a British frigate sailing along the American coast ?a possible exchange for some captured English officer...