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...There are many routes to an education other than big lecture courses in Harvard lecture halls," Vogt said, adding that some of students' richest educational experiences occur outside the classroom...
...part-time actress and singer who once had 20/800 vision: "When I first started, the world was totally out of focus. Now I get up in the morning and can see fairly well. It gives me a lot of freedom." Critics do not deny that limited improvements may indeed occur, but they point out that they are at best temporary, and that the cornea will eventually spring back to its old shape. They also worry that the treatment, especially in the hands of less skilled practitioners, can cause permanent astigmatism and other eye damage. Says Ophthalmologist G. Peter Halberg...
...show fares in the ratings. Says one anxious veteran of the No. 3 network: "Roots was about a civil rights struggle that brought an end to slavery; our story doesn't have a conventional happy ending. That's a worry." To minimize disaster, should it occur, NBC has scheduled the mini-series a week before the beginning of the fiercely competitive and all-important Nielsen sweeps. "I had dreams of glory for King [a ratings flop]." says Klein, "but now I'm hardened. Even if Holocaust does badly, it will still reach 25 million people...
Black holes occur when a neutron or another dense star collapses, and causes an area of violent activity in space exerting such strong gravitational forces that no light rays can emerge. This area then "vanishes out of sight, so to speak," Alastair G.W. Cameron, chairman of the Astronomy Department, said yesterday...
...peril at the bottom of the sea is not expected to bring to dramatic conclusion any marital problems or troubled love affairs. Gray Lady Down is a job-oriented film about job-oriented men, and its only queasy moments occur when, for dramatic punctuation, someone is required to crack under pressure. For the most part, however, a tight rein is kept on emotion and lips are kept well stiffened against adversity...