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...PENTAGON has ended its six-month old program to "automatically" upgrade some 60,000 undesirable discharges received by Vietnam-era deserters, but figures show that only a fraction of those who had received non-honorable discharges had chosen to participate...
...Small Fraction...
THIS STAGE of the process, in which masters will freely choose among applicants, resembles the master's choice system used by the College several years ago to assign students to Houses after freshman year. Under master's choice, a fraction of the Houses' population was filled by the master. This system drew criticism by some as tending to homogenize the residents of individual Houses and even excluding certain students from some Houses. Critics find similar faults with the new transfer process. "It means a kind of battle to please the master. I don't imagine this change will make...
...cent floor assumes the average College-wide attrition rate--the fraction of students who do not return this year--will be eight per cent. For the average House, the 13 per cent transfer limit means that only five per cent of those living in the Houses at the start of the semester may leave without being replaced by incoming transfers. Individual houses vary widely around the eight per cent attrition average, however; Kirkland has had only a four per cent attrition rate, leaving it with serious overcrowding...
...protective sheathing around nerve fibers, have long suspected that the answer might lie in a delayed reaction to a viral infection contracted years in the past. One suspect has been the measles virus, but 90% or more of all Americans in the prevaccination era got measles, while only a fraction of 1% developed MS. Now three New Jersey physicians have developed preliminary data suggesting that exposure to pet dogs may be related...