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University administrators are particularly concerned with making a Harvard education available to middle-income students. Upper income families have always been able to provide for themselves, and universities and the government have often tried to help poorer students obtain educations, but the class now defined by income levels between $20,000 and $50,000 has largely been ignored. Harvard's attempts to ease the burden on the middle class rely on a combination of loans and student employment. Administrators are now encouraging middle-and lower-income students to help themselves by seeking jobs of their own, chiefly through the expanding...
...summary executions" and the pronouncement by an Iranian religious judge that the Shah should be assassinated "in any country where found." The crowds in Tehran were particularly vociferous in attacking New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who introduced the resolution, and his wife Marion, who helped obtain the Iran Air account for a New York public relations firm...
...medical privacy stands in mortal jeopardy. In a decision that could have legal repercussions elsewhere, the Colorado Supreme Court in April tossed out indictments against two insurance companies that hired a Denver detective agency that allegedly trained employees to impersonate doctors and bribed hospital personnel to obtain medical records. The court's reasoning: theft statutes could not be used to prosecute the firms because such information is not a "thing of value...
Once a student winds up his studies in America, however, he faces a problem: it is not that easy to stay on. To obtain a permanent visa, students need some skill that is in short supply in the U.S., a requirement few can meet. The State Department is considering granting asylum to the pro-Shah students, who would be in peril if they went home. Others, without this protection, may follow the course of so many foreigners and slip into the shadowy world of illegal aliens. For all the drawbacks of that way of life, many students would doubtless prefer...
...doctors at Yale, the University of Connecticut and Case Western Reserve report they have devised a prenatal blood test that may avert those heart-rending abortions. Once amniocentesis determines that a woman is carrying a male child, doctors use a technique called fetoscopy to obtain a sample of the baby's blood. They make an incision in the woman's abdomen, then insert a tubular fiber-optic device to locate one of the baby's blood vessels on the placenta. Using a tiny needle, they withdraw a few drops of the baby's blood, which...