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Today the dean of the Medical School heads a faculty with some 1400 full-time members and an additional 1400 part-time members. Med School faculty predominate on the physician staffs of major Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals like Beth Israel, Peter Bent Brigham and Massachusetts General, the largest hospital in New England. The dean is ex officio president of the Harvard Medical Center, a council of hospital officials created to coordinate the work of the Harvard-affiliated hospitals. And in addition to the sheer number of people the dean must direct, he plays an important role as a national leader...
Because of the large number of entries for this year's Head, some women's boats failed to make the field. There are 620 women slated to compete in this year's Regatta, the largest number of women ever entered, but Yale's and Princeton's women's teams did not make the field...
...October 1965, the Cambridge Boat Club, with funding from The Boston Globe, sponsored the first Head, which attracted about 100 boats. That turnout encouraged sponsors, and insured the development of what is today one of the world's largest single-day regattas...
Nuclear arms production began 32 years ago when an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped a 15-kiloton atomic device on Hiroshima. Prior to this, the largest bomb developed had been the "blockbuster," so named because it was capable of devastating an entire city block. The Hiroshima bomb had a destructive force equivalent to 1300-2000 blockbusters and the one A-bomb virtually pulverized a city of more than 300,000 inhabitants. When President Truman heard the news, he said: "This is the greatest thing in history...
World attention is now focused on the frightening array of questions surrounding the circumstances of Biko's death. The most recent reports in one of South Africa's largest daily newspapers, The Rand Daily Mail, based on interviews with six doctors who examined Biko a week before his death, suggest he showed no medical signs of being on a hunger strike-a strike that the Vorster government has claimed was the cause of Biko's death. The Mail also indicated that Biko had already suffered extensive brain damage, possibly as the result of severe beatings on the head...