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Glamour Magazine is looking for a few good women, ten to be exact. The winners of the magazine's "1982 Top Ten College Women Competition" will be selected "on the basis of their solid records of achievement in academic studies and/or their involvement in personal, campus, or community activities," professes a press release sent to college newspaper editors...
...summer's other big news story will be around a little longer, three years, to be exact. President Bok announced in early August that he would examine both the Sociology department and the record of former junior faculty member Theda Skocpol until 1984 before deciding whether to offer Skocpol tenure. Skocpol--who began teaching duties at the University of Chicago this fall--charged last year that she was denied tenure because of her gender. A three-member panel upheld Skocpol's charge in the early spring, and sent the mess on to Bok for a final decision. Instead, he announced...
...exact, it sounds like a very pleasant dream for men's soccer coach George Ford. Only he's not dreaming...
...unable to exact from Israel even a renewed promise to abide by the contractual restrictions on the offensive use of U.S. weapons. An original embargo of four F-16 jets had been ordered immediately following Israel's raid against Iraq on June 7, mainly out of concern that the attack would jeopardize U.S.-Arab relations. When Arab reaction proved to be less critical than expected, the only question for the Administration was when to end the embargo. Nonetheless, Washington hoped to gain some concessions from Israel in return for lifting it-perhaps even an end to Jerusalem...
Finally, poor distribution and simple inefficiency exact a gigantic toll. In some parts of the Soviet Union threshing is still carried on as it was 200 years ago. Foreign travelers report seeing old women in the fields flailing the grain with wooden paddles, then winnowing by throwing kernels and hulls in the air, letting the wind separate the two. Another not infrequent sight: grain combines mowing while collection trucks follow much too far behind. "The combines literally funnel the grain right back into the fields, missing the trucks completely," says one bemused Western specialist. Western estimates put waste at between...