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...certainty that the Core Curriculum would root out those people who abuse the present system. However, I am convinced that the loss in freedom under the Core Curriculum to the majority of students who use the present system properly would far outweigh the gain made for a few other students who would only begrudgingly accept...
...home have only a tenth grade education and hold low-playing jobs. Three years ago, however, the United Mine Workers opened coal mining jobs to women, and these jobs pay more than most available to rural people. In Daugherty's view, the economic advantages of mining jobs for women outweigh their drawbacks. "It is dangerous, but many women will do it out of sheer economic necessity. They're not free to go elsewhere for jobs, and mining affords them $12,000 to $15,000 a year as a starting salary," she points...
Most parents say the benefits of raising a family at Harvard outweigh the difficulties. "I would hope that the students feel they would profit from seeing a family around," Fincke says. "Not that I would expect us to be the ideal family--maybe the opposite--but I like to give people another image of a family than that of their own parents. I wish I'd had more contact with married people when I was an undergraduate...
...study of long-distance runners to find the answer to this question. Until he does, says Researcher Gilbert Gleim of the Institute of Sports Medicine at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. fitness freaks should keep on running or jogging. The known benefits of such exercise, he says, far outweigh any known disadvantages. ∙ ∙ ∙ Jogger's kidney is not the only problem plaguing those involved in the great American running boom. An even more exotic ailment is "jogger's nipples," an irritation caused by the rubbing of a runner's shirt against skin. This condition...
...transnational corporations help blacks. But in South Africa all black organizations except those sponsored by the regime, and virtually all anti-apartheid organizations, black and white, have called for withdrawal of foreign investment from South Africa. They feel that the strategic and economic support transnations give the regime far outweigh the few jobs at starvation-level wages they provide blacks. In the words of the late Chief Albert J. Luthuli, President of the African National Congress of South Africa and Peace Prize winner...