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Trying to address the security problem with a 24-hour shuttle system also betrays a disturbing bias toward undergraduates who live in the house system. Students who live in Currier House are home when the shuttle drops them off. But graduate students and students who live off campus may face a 10 to 15-minute walk, during which time they are again vulnerable...
Thus, when the World Psychiatric Association met in Athens last week, one of the most controversial issues on its agenda was whether to readmit Soviet psychiatrists, who resigned in 1983 rather than face expulsion for human- rights abuses. Eager for acceptance, the Soviets made an eleventh-hour acknowledgment that "previous political conditions in the U.S.S.R. created an environment in which psychiatric abuse occurred for nonmedical, including political, reasons...
...often successful only because the patients take a daily dose of cyclosporine. The drug keeps their immune systems from attacking and rejecting the foreign organs. But it is not perfect. Some 70% of patients getting a new liver, for example, still suffer rejection episodes. And many organ recipients face life- threatening side effects from cyclosporine, including an increased risk of cancer and heart disease...
There may be something perversely cathartic about earthquakes. For some time mankind has been in the business of manufacturing its own disasters -- wars, acid rain and other pollutions, drugs, a globe aswarm with refugees. Perhaps it is a relief for a moment to be face to face with a disaster that man did not invent, a cataclysm that has at least a sort of innocence of origin in larger powers...
...Still facing charges of inciting antistate activities was the most prominent victim of the crackdown so far: Jiri Ruml, 64, editor of the independent monthly newspaper Lidove Noviny (People's News). He and co-editor Rudolf Zeman, 50, were arrested two weeks ago and taken to Prague's infamous Ruzyne prison. They face jail terms of up to five years if convicted under Czechoslovakia's Article 100 law banning most forms of dissident expression. Their continued detention may be the regime's way of closing down the feisty Lidove Noviny (circ. 5,000) as well as of warning protesters...