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Economic realities have increasingly been figuring in educational planning. Thomas Fernandez, vice president of Atlanta's Emory University, says he consults the U.S. Department of Labor before counseling students. Says he: "You can't crystal-ball it. If we graduate 15,000 chemical engineers every four years, we want to be sure that down the road, chemical engineering is where it's at." Every two-year community college in New York State has an advisory panel of industry officials to assist in creating curriculums or practicing academic contraception if a program produces graduates for whom there...
...have started yet, but that hasn't stopped the players from working out. Yesterday, at Brookline High School, Luis Tiant displayed his pitching prowess, his physique, and his basketball and swimming abilities for an assortment of people, including his father, Luis Sr., and his long-time friend, Felix Fernandez, a Brookline High teacher...
...much better this year than any other year," Fernandez said about Tiant. Fernandez, like Tiant, is a refugee from Cuba, and the two played together on the Marianao Park team in Havana. Fernandez said that Tiant is working on three new pitches to befuddle hitters, including a knuckleball, a forkball, and a palmball...
...Tiant has not foresaken his fastball, which he can spin to the left and the right, causing the ball to break in or out. Fernandez, who has been catching Tiant's pitches everyday for the past two weeks and has helped him train for the past few years, says that the changes in his pitches have made El Tiante's fastball faster than it has ever been...
...skills that have taken him years to acquire. The ball always went into his glove with two fingers on it, but came out with a different grip for each pitch in his repertoire. All of the changes came too quickly to see. "He knows the secret of the ball," Fernandez said...