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ACSR members criticized Bok's contentions that divestment would harm either the University or South Africa. "There is no evidence as to [divestment] affecting the University's financial position," McGinn said. He added that "many Blacks in South Africa have urged for U.S. companies...
Many physicians, however, doubt the therapeutic value of the boots. Says Dr. Willibald Nagler, chairman of the department of rehabilitation medicine at New York Hospital: "There is no evidence at all that they help, but there is also no evidence that they do any harm." He warns, however, that people with high blood pressure or circulatory disorders should avoid them. Nagler himself bought a parr of Gravity Boots last fall, and has been getting the hang of them three times a week...
...naiveté of some of your readers who wrote defending Steven Mosher, the Stanford anthropologist expelled for publishing photographs of forced abortions in rural China [April 4]. An anthropologist has a responsibility to the people he studies not to put them in a position where they can suffer physical harm for any information they have given him. When Mosher took no precautions in his article to protect the identities of the Chinese he interviewed, he showed an insensitivity to their welfare. The university was right to expel him. Well done, Stanford. Richard Mack Jr. Hollis...
...organizer of the drive said yesterday that "mentioning the names of specific people in the petitions protects them from harm because the Polish government knows someone outside is watching them...
...audience of high school students in Tel Aviv and casually described how he and his colleagues oversee the work of foreign correspondents reporting from Israel. "We hear all their phone calls, check every story they send, and even garble their telex cable transmissions when they move stories that can harm us," the bureaucrat explained. The admission was extraordinary. Although Israel regularly censors reports by domestic and foreign journalists on a broad range of subjects, on the ground that it is necessary to do so to protect national security, officials have persistently refused to acknowledge that the military employs an extensive...