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...other serious illness in laboratory animals. Last week the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reported that 112 of 130 residents tested in Imperial, Mo., near dioxin-contaminated Times Beach, showed abnormalities in blood, liver or kidney functions. Says Dr. Irving Selikoff, director of the environmental-science lab at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan: "No question about it, dioxin is harmful to humans. It is manmade. As a result, the human body doesn't know how to break it down. We store it in our bodies and accumulate...
...colleges in the Northeast, including the eight members of the Ivy League. These colleges require their scholarship winners to show financial need, and the schools' representatives meet once a year to standardize aid packages offered to the same students. Two top-ranked women's colleges, Smith and Mount Holyoke, recently broke ranks by announcing that they would award 30 prizes of $300 and $400, respectively, to then" choice applicants. Says Mount Holyoke President Elizabeth Kennan: "Our No. 1 priority will be to fund all needy students. These prizes are intended to reward excellence...
Although such awards are small potatoes, some colleges in the group of 23 have criticized Smith and Mount Holyoke for breaking a need-only tradition. With their costs soaring to more than $12,000 a year, Ivy League schools are uneasily aware of the lures of lavish merit scholarships and are emphasizing that they will provide enough aid to cover the demonstrated requirements of any student who is accepted...
...Still, Homo sapiens has adjusted to the idea of having ice hockey's Stanley Cup playoffs proceed at their glacial pace through the same month, so perhaps the content of seasons is just a matter of habit. When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount movable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of night and day and even the terrestrial seasons. If he wished such special effects, he could probably conjure up an occasional blizzard inside the space colony. But he doubtless will follow the longstanding American habit of thinking that outer space should...
Student support for changing the scholarship's name continues to mount. The Law School's Third World Coalition yesterday signed the seventh protest letter, to be delivered to the K-School later this week. The coalition consists of representatives from Black, Hispanic, Arab, Asian, American Indian and Puerto Rican law student organizations...