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...this year "I've had more calls from good candidates that have been left out than ever before." One boy in suburban New York with 1,220 SATs and three varsity letters was wait-listed by all four colleges he tried, including Schenectady's Union and Lafayette in Easton, Pa. Observes Phyllis Steinbrecher, a college placement consultant in New York: "What was a safety school is no longer a safety school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Campus Scramble to Recruit | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

Sufferers routinely endure a medical odyssey before their problem is correctly traced to the troublesome joint. Pam Baird, 46, of Havertown, Pa., had unnecessary root-canal work and was treated for bronchitis and an eye infection. "When I finally learned what I had, it was such a relief that I just sat there and cried," she says. Despite such sagas, experts are concerned that TMJ is being overdiagnosed. "Any vague symptom above the chest has become TMJ," charges Dentist Charles Greene, co-director of Northwestern University's TMJ clinic, one of the dozens devoted to facial and jaw pain that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Treating an In Malady | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...owed no back taxes and had broken no law. But that did not stop the Internal Revenue Service from seizing $22,000 in Shirley Lojeski's bank account. Lojeski, who breeds Thoroughbred horses in Pipersville, Pa., was unaware that anything was wrong until her checks suddenly started bouncing. Mystified at first, she eventually realized that the IRS had taken her money as a way to get at her boyfriend, Thomas Treadway. The agency had accused Treadway, who ran a trash-management business, of owing $247,000 in back taxes, and suspected that he was stashing his money in Lojeski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting A Leash on the IRS | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

Harvard's first-line midfield is further beefed up by sophomore Perry Dodge and junior Steve Lux, who is known for his play off the ball. Dodge, a native of Radnor, Pa, has assumed his role with great confidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laxmen Hold High Hopes for Ivy Season | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

...Since rents have been escalating, some places going for $60 per square foot... only high-profit-margin, national chain stores or those that appeal to faddish markets survive, since they are able to pay top dollar," Gifford said." The Ma and Pa stores are being forced out, and that's a shame...

Author: By Shawna H. Yen, | Title: Upwardly Mobile Rents Are Changing Square's Shops | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

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