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Every year a certain amount of happy frenzy attends the occasion, but the summer of '78 seems special. "I've never seen anything like it," says British Travel Agent Dennis Carver. "They're willing to go almost anywhere." As long as they go to the Med. The Continent's treasured southern beaches are awash in bodies glued together ham to hock. Dark-skinned Arabs flirt with pale northerners. Africans peddle snakeskin handbags and handcrafted jewelry. Dogs, children and wind surfers turn sand and sea into a hazardous obstacle course for casual bathers. In France the separation...
...attempts to alter the ironclad European attitude toward July and August vacations have failed. Meanwhile a recent poll commissioned by the Paris daily Le Figaro has shown that workers would rather have more vacation than the equivalent extra pay-something that has ominous implications for the Med in the future and also for anyone trying to get a hotel room on its shores...
Golden had a head start on the job. As an undergraduate at New York University, he had been a pre-med student until deciding that his interest in writing was so strong that his future was in journalism. Since joining TIME in 1967, Golden has written stories not only on medicine but science, environment and behavior as well. He feels this week's cover was his most challenging. Says Golden: "It hits aw fully close to home. It deals with the very beginning of life, and it also raises all sorts of fears we wanted to address...
Explains Father Joseph Walters, pre-med adviser at Notre Dame: "Students face borrowing $50,000 to finance medical school. Later, with the high cost of malpractice insurance, they would need an income of $5,000 a month to start a practice and pay back the debt. The opportunities of earning $60,000 a year right out of med school are rarely there...
With better guidance from pre-med counselors, students are more accurately assessing their chances of getting into medical school. Ethan Schuman, 23, a senior with a 3.5 average (on a scale of 4) at Boston's Northeastern University, wanted to be a doctor but decided not to apply. "The word among students is that you need at least a 3.8 average before they look at you. I guess I was simply not ready to take the gamble of spending four years in college and then not making it into graduate school. The good part is that I am missing...