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Even the dropouts who do land factory jobs can find work tougher than they thought. A relative helped Christine Harden, 18, find work in a local car-parts factory four months after she dropped out of Shelbyville High. But she has to get up at 4:30 a.m. to make the first shift every day, and she says her back is killing her. "All my friends who are thinking about dropping out, I tell them, 'Don't do it,'" she says. "This is real life out here. It's not easy...
...loose guidelines for graduate admissions and career placement continue to harden into requirements—ask any pre-med if you don’t believe me—Harvard should take advantage of its position as a leader in higher education to publicly repudiate the narrowing influence of vocational education. I sincerely doubt that recruiters and professional schools will stop hiring and accepting Harvard graduates as a consequence...
...medical press, and it was hailed as a breakthrough by those who oppose what they see as disease mongering by the drug industry and other groups. The drug skeptics have had other recent victories. In the U.S. last year, the Food and Drug Administration told the drug companies to harden their warnings about the potential side effects of SSRIs. The companies' prescriber information must now feature a black-box warning - the strongest available - stating that in trials "antidepressants increased the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior" in children and adolescents with depression and other psychiatric disorders. The fda is reviewing...
...ultra-late-night fare and its “authentic” Chinese dishes: fried cream cheese, buffalo wings, and tempura shrimp. Stick it to “the Man,” Harvard, give him your money and let those breakfast eggs from your pre-paid meal plan harden away as you sleep the night off.I apologize if the sarcasm in the preceding paragraph upset anyone’s utopian visions about college life, so I’m happy to entertain the possibility that late nights are a necessity in the open and experimental academic atmosphere. Some might...
...Sandinistas turn a jungle crash into an electrifying propaganda coup. For the U.S. Congress, nettlesome questions arise over who sponsored the mission and whether the CIA was involved. Suspicions about Damascus' support for terrorism harden in London and Paris. TIME's editors travel to Syria for a rare and wide-ranging interview with President Hafez Assad...