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Essay deadlines for the Bowdoin prize for graduate students have been changed from Jan. 7 to Jan...
BASKETBALLvs. Brown at IAB from Sat., Jan. 12, 1974 to Tues., Feb. 19, 1974 (V) 11:30 am (JV) 1:30 pm SWIMMING vs. Brown at IAB from Sat., Jan. 12, 1974 to Tues...
...Social Security Act. They set up Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROS), which are to be composed exclusively of physicians (doctors of medicine or of osteopathy), recruited mainly from state and county medical societies. There is no provision for any layman or consumer representation. The legislation, which becomes effective Jan. 1, gives the PSROS two years in which to draw up "norms" for the kind and cost of care usually given in their area for 350 different conditions. After January 1976, any doctor who wants to get paid through a federally supported medical program will first have to sign up with...
There is less debate about where comets originate. The most widely accepted explanation is that of Dutch Astronomer Jan Oort, who says that comets exist by the billions in a vast swarm of debris beyond Pluto that stretches halfway to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri. The debris, called Oort's Cloud, coalesced from the swirling dust and gases in the original solar nebula, from which the sun, earth and other planets and moons were formed. Thus comets are primordial matter, largely unchanged since the solar system's birth. (Lyttleton ascribes a different origin to the comets: he thinks...
...CRAFT OF SAIL by Jan Adkins. 64 pages. Walker. $5.95. A few years back, Jan Adkins drew and wrote a book called The Art and Industry ofSandcas-tles, which cleverly combined designs for toddlers on the beach with a short history of fortification for older brothers and parents. This time, with pen, ink and wash pictures and accompanying text, he has produced a handsome small primer on sailing that is also a model of brevity, clarity and simplicity. Starting with the Bernoulli effect (which explains how sailboats move to windward), the book ends with anchoring, having passed through everything from...