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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expressed in terms of dollars, which any layman can understand. Not so with medicine. The cliché has it that medicine is as much art as science. Granted, the art part is in tangible and immeasurable. But much of the science part of medicine remains largely hit or miss. One doctor will pre scribe twice as much of a potent antibiotic as another, or prescribe a needlessly dangerous drug. One surgeon will hurry to operate, while another will say, "This child will outgrow the problem," and spare the knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Patients' Rights and the Quality of Medical Care | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...Midler demonstrated once again that she is a superb female impersonator. Not, however, as good as Rodney Pigeon. The following night at the Blue Angel nightclub, Rodney, 20, scored a succèsfou in the French-inspired transvestite revue Zou. Hurling himself onto the pocket-handkerchief stage, the divine Miss M's carbon copy skittered and tittered while belting out Midler's theme song, Friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 17, 1973 | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...building a Utopia of socialism and love. In contrast, there is the bleak view of Psychologist turned Amateur Geophysicist Immanuel Velikovsky. In his bestselling 1950 book Worlds in Collision-which is regarded as gospel by many mystics but as science fiction by most scientists-Velikov-sky blamed a near miss by a comet for such biblical events as the parting of the Red Sea and the plagues of Egypt. The fate of that comet? According to Velikovsky's scenario, it settled into an orbit near the earth and is now known as the planet Venus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECIAL REPORT: Kohoutek: Comet of the Century | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

Brown's first-line center, Brian Stapleton, received a ten-minute misconduct penalty 45 seconds before the second period's end, forcing him to miss half the final stanza...

Author: By E.p. Eggert, | Title: Crimson Skaters Trounce Brown, 6-2 | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...following Harvard students have won Rhodes Scholarships for 1974: Charles Garvin of Mather House and Jackson, Miss.; Elliot F. Gerson of Quincy House and Storrs, Conn.; Bruns H. Grayson of Adams House and Alameda, Calif.; Walter Isaacson of Lowell House and New Orleans, La.; David L. Johnson of Adams House and Indianapolis, Ind.; and Lief D. Rosenblatt of Eliot House and Egremont, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

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