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...jump is slightly lower than the 15-per-cent average increases at Harvard's other graduate schools, 6 per cent lower than last year's Med School hike which changed the trend of very low increases that prevailed during years when lower costs and support from endowment income and alumni gifts helped keep tuition levels down, Dr. I. Leon Dogon, associate administrative dean at the Dental School, said yesterday...
Dismissing the president's decontrol and deregulation plans as misleading, Tsongas zeroes in on his favorite topic--the Kemp-Roth tax cut proposals. Tsongas has only scorn for the 30-per-cent three-year reduction plan; he calls it "very inflationary and economically unjust." He adds that in Washington "everyone knows that Kemp-Roth is a dog, and they're going to kill it in the Congress." What really makes the 39-year-old first-term senator angry is that in the short run, Reagan "can say he was for it without suffering any of the political ramifications...
...stereotype is damaging. The greatest shock to my naivete about homosexuality was finding out how common it is. Studies to determine exactly how many people are gay consistently settle around 10 per cent of the population. This means there are 20 to 25 million gay Americans. The 10-per-cent figure at first seemed to me impossible because so few people. I knew fit the image I had of a gay person. I have since realized that the vast majority of gay people do not fit this image. These are the gays we do not perceive. They come from...
Norman L. Sadowsky, clinical instructor in Radiology, said yesterday. "The overall five-year cure rate for breast cancer is only an 18-per-cent chance that the patient will survive five years after treatment. If the tumor is detected early, however, usually through mammography, an X-ray of the breast, the five-year cure rate is about 90 per cent...
Robbins, the second cancer expert Glicklich's attorney. Clyde Bergstresser, has called to the witness stand since the proceedings began last Wednesday, said that if Glicklich had undergone a biopsy when she first noticed her lump in 1978, she would have had a 94-per-cent chance of living for at least ten years...