Word: meds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Toufexis began her science career as a pre-med major at Smith College, though she insists, "I never wanted to be a doctor. I just liked the basic science curriculum." A staff writer for a physicians' newspaper before joining TIME in 1978, she has been practicing medical journalism for ten years, despite what she describes as a nagging professional handicap: her first name. "My friends and contacts at hospitals and research facilities sometimes fail to return phone calls," she laments. "They don't want to talk to the Anesthesia Department...
...most engaging side of it is Jessica, played by Karen Allen, a young actress with a pretty, open face and a straightshooting manner that is extraordinarily winning. She is bright, wry, self-amused without being selfabsorbed. Jameson Parker, as a blond, bland Waspy square (he's pre-med), is perhaps a tad too deep into his role, appealing without being truly interesting. Brad Davis (the sweet victim of Midnight Express) proves here that he is really an actor. Playing a hustler carving out a career as a New Journalist, he is as active as he was passive...
...Since all the divers have the same intention, and all are trying to solve the same problems, it's not a question of putting the other guy down," the pre-med said. "Diving is more social than swimming can be because you can talk between dives but you can't during laps. Swimmers need to be a little hostile to each other, I think, but divers can be close-knit within themselves...
...spring of 1977 Doug Mason told his freshman adviser his plan to combine an East Asian Studies concentration with pre-med courses and wrestling. After listening to a stern warning about the need to preserve one's sanity at Harvard, Mason reacted with characteristic freshman ambition and plowed straight ahead...
Today, Mason is alive and well, shoulder-deep in a senior thesis on the Taiwanese National Health Insurance Program, waiting patiently to hear from Med Schools, co-captaining the Harvard wrestling squad and every bit as sane as he was three years...