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DIED. Hans Selye, 75, Vienna-born endocrinologist and the world's foremost authority on stress; in Montreal. Experiments on rats led him to theories about stress, which he explored in 33 books (including Stress Without Distress, 1974). The body's physical response to stress-alarm, resistance and exhaustion-can cause disease and death, Selye demonstrated. He contended that modern humans are no more its victims than were cave dwellers and suggested that by learning to control stress "people could live past...
Like all Harvard departments. Economics has a regular list of competitors in faculty recruitment--Stanford. Yale, and the University of Chicago foremost among them. But the proximity of the two Cambridge institution with and the regularity with which their economists see each other at work and social occasions heightens the visibility and intensity of their rivalry. "They pond is smaller--news travels faster around here," says Zvi Griliches, chairman of Harvard's Economics Department...
...with Republicans now goes beyond Reagan's stance on the traditional feminist issues. By an average 10 to 20 points, women are more likely than men to decry the Reagan Administration's opposition to a nuclear arms freeze and its attempts to cut social welfare programs. Their foremost concern is the economy, and again they are more critical of Republican policies than are men. Explains Pollster Peter Hart: "Women are more economically sensitive than men. They are new to the job market...
...Foremost among the questions raised by the Harvard Medical Area's Joint Committee on the Status of Women is whether the complaints UHS periodically receives from patients, especially those about gynecological care, indicate bad practice or simply the "attitudinal" conflicts UHS says are unavoidable when many women must use the same two practitioners...
...twin perceptions of Steiner grow out of his unofficial role as University troubleshooter. Early in the Bok years, he proved his mettle as an effective administrator, and the president increasingly entrusted him with sensitive crisis-management duties--foremost among them, dealing with student disruptions. Steiner himself didn't resist the new responsibilities which he once told The Crimson are "natural for a lawyer...I don't feel uncomfortable working in a charged atmosphere...