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...Fern Leitman, 56, a longtime Florida resident, thought her repeated bouts of pneumonia were just bad luck. Doctors told Suzan King-Carr, 58, of Hobe Sound, Fla., that the spots on her lungs were probably cancer. Ida Mae Williams, 76, of Bogalusa, La., was informed that she had tuberculosis. Three women, three different diagnoses--all of them wrong. After years of ineffectual treatment, each woman learned that she, like thousands of other Americans, had developed a mysterious lung infection that mimics TB, seems to strike thin, white women in particular and can be permanently debilitating. Most unsettling of all, they...
...away. A specialized sputum test can identify the infection--if one is ordered. Telltale signs will also show up on a CAT scan--if you know what to look for. That is why doctors and patients are trying to spread the word about this mysterious ailment. (Leitman's husband Philip has taken the lead in Florida, raising funds, organizing medical workshops and creating a website, www.ntminfo.com. Sometimes what you don't know can hurt...
Students were somewhat shocked that no one asked for their opinion before any decisions were made. "Most of us see it as a fait accompli handed down by President Bok. Many of us disagreed with that sort of process," says Joe Leitman, who represents the K-School student committee which has debated the issue for several months. Having set their initial indignation aside, students responding to a survey distributed by Leitman's committee were "mostly positive," he says...
...many administrative complications engendered by the shift, the merging of admissions procedures may prove the most onerous. Leitman says that some K-Schoolers are worried that "the quality of the degree would be diluted because of laxer admissions standards (for CRP students)." Specifically, some of those involved in the transfer process believe that CRP students will struggle to keep up in courses using mathematics. Dorothy E. Bambach, dean of students at the K-School, disagrees vehemently: "The business of their not being able to keep in quantitative scores is just a lot of smoke. It's unnecessarily demeaning to their...
Catharsis School. Such shreds of research are useful, but they reveal little of the overall impact of TV on Video Boy's attitudes and behavior. The effect may be profound. Allan Leitman of Boston's Educational Development Center warns that TV is creating a generation of spectators. "Kids come into school today," he explains, "and they wait for people to tell them things. Without handling frogs or flying a kite, they lead less of a life. We're moving along in a mold that will produce people I can't even imagine." Many parents, shuddering...