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...grounds of abandoned convents. Goats and chickens come with the terrain, as do water shortages, blackouts and the occasional political coup. Many lack facilities normally considered standard: research libraries, X-ray machines, fresh cadavers. But for about 15,000 U.S. students desperate to become doctors, the makeshift medical schools that dot the Caribbean represent a last chance. Failure to get into graduate schools in the U.S. once meant flying off to universities in Mexico, Italy or the Philippines. Lately, students have been turning to the Caribbean, where in the past half-dozen years 16 profit-making educational enterprises have flourished...
...night long the scattered paratroopers worked to re-establish contact, snapping cricket noisemakers to locate each other. (Most of their radios had been lost, along with 60% of their other supplies.) Sometimes the cricket sound drew German gunfire, but more often it brought lonely stragglers together into makeshift units (others remained lost for days). "When I began to use my cricket," General Taylor recalled, "the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. He was the most beautiful soldier I'd ever seen, before or since. We threw our arms around each other...
...broken vows, fruitless tears and misspent time. Today the moon is a repository of more substantial material: it harbors a pile of gear, left behind by Apollo astronauts, that includes one moon buggy, $5 million worth of camera equipment and two golf balls that Alan Shepard whacked with a makeshift six iron to unplayable lies in a boulder-strewed valley. Still, this lunar refuse is paltry by comparison with all of the man-made debris now sailing noiselessly through the cosmos...
FOUR TIMES a year, the American Repertory Theatre clears off the Loeb Mainstage to make room for undergraduate productions. Since most student shows are performed in dining halls or other makeshift theatres, the opportunity to work at the Loeb is indeed a great and desirable one. As the best and most sought after stage on the Harvard campus, it should be a showcase for the best of Harvard theatre. And, in fact, much of the best talent does find an opportunity to work there. However, not only should the desired high quality of the productions be important in selecting what...
...that problem that he proposed and helped create the Central American commission. He saw imminent danger in an increasingly assertive (bellicose to some) Administration policy, proceeding without political support. In the absence of a strong natural constituency-his old constituency-to provide that support, he sought an alternative, however makeshift...