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...failure of the pancreas* to produce enough insulin. For this juvenile or unstable form of diabetes, the only remedy seems to be the obvious one: supply the missing insulin by injection. In some cases, insulin dosage can be reduced with the aid of one of the recently developed oral drugs. Despite its relative infrequency, it is mainly the juvenile form that makes diabetes rank as the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S., and the third ranking cause of blindness...
...teaching techniques which Stein stresses in the course and for which the German Department at Harvard is famous are aural-oral. Stein counsels his future college teachers to develop in their students the ability for automatic response and communications--the same kind a child develops learning his native language. He opposes this to the old-fashioned grammar-and-translation approach. In fact, a "Do's and Don'ts" sheet which Stein distributes to his teaching fellows concludes with a warning: "There is a departmental ban on the use of the words 'memorize' and 'translate,' and a total...
...Romance Languages Department with Dwight LeM. Bolinger, professor of Romance Languages and Literature, as coordinator of language instruction has begun to follow, in the last two years, in the German Department's footsteps. Since the Romance Languages Department has not been as enthusiastic in the transition to oral-aural-methods as the German Department, experts think is will take about three more years before the former's teacher-training program begins to produce as well. But the two departments are now working together--Stein and Bolinger, as co-ordinators are co-operating on further developments in the training program...
Help or Hair Shirt. In Britain, contracts are brief, often oral, and sealed with no more than a handshake. Though the Germans rarely strike (only 34 strikes all last year), the French have a way of striking at any time without warning; wildcat walkouts are especially prevalent in Britain, where the courts have little power to intervene. U.S. businessmen are often taken aback by the anti-capitalist polemics, greater militance and puzzling multiplicity of the labor unions. The British have 190 unions, and a company such as Ford must negotiate with more than 20 on each contract go-round...
Despite the changes, Harvard will still be connected with the project. Handlin, Dean Ford, and Richard E. Neustadt, Director of the Kennedy Institute, will be on a committee to oversee the oral history...