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...Irregular, Unprepared
...Male medical students also need to spend time with their families; their irregular and grueling schedules no doubt play an important role in doctors' infamously high divorce rates. And 36-hour shifts are hardly conducive to good medical practice. A reformation should attract not only qualified females but qualified males who previously have also been reluctant to make such spartan sacrifices. HELEN W. REMICK Davis, Calif...
...themselves. Unlike the Andes or even the closer Canadian Rockies -both of which were squeezed up by massive lateral pressures-the American Rockies seem to have been at least partially lifted by enormous forces directly beneath them. As Geophysicist Wilson points out, many of them are not jagged or irregular peaks, like their Canadian neighbors to the north, but huge granite slabs that still retain the flatness of the original Colorado Plateau...
...nearby beach were hacked to death by unknown marauders. With an atmosphere reminiscent of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Isla Vista is isolated, in spirit as well as in fact. People over 30 are practically nonexistent. Bus service to Santa Barbara is inconvenient and irregular. Since most of the residents are too young to vote, inexperienced in politics or both, I.V. is a powerless political backwater. It long had governmental services to match: one stop light for 6,000 cars, no public parks, inadequate street lighting, few sidewalks, no hospital, out-of-touch police...
These weird ironies are the vertebrae of many of Oates' best stories. Sometimes they protrude like irregular knobs; more often, they're slipped in, almost surreptitiously...