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Though rarely fatal, the sun-induced cancers often require surgical removal. In all, estimates Dr. Wilson, "thirty percent of the practice of dermatologists is treating skin changes that have been brought about by sunlight...
...also true that the vast majority of students never do learn, even if they do their homework every night and believe and believe and believe. Nobody who is associated with Reading Dynamics would ever come out and admit this because it makes ridiculous the fact that less than two percent of the students get their money back after the course...
...reading index" is the product of the reading rate multiplied by the percent score on the comprehension test. Thus if a student reads 300 words per minute and scores 70 per cent on the test he takes during the first session, his index is 210. If on the final test he reads at 1500 words per minute, he need score only 42 per cent on the comprehension score to triple his former reading index to 630. What makes this stipulation even less valid is that before the final test during the eighth lesson, the students are usually instructed...
Meanwhile on the West Coast, about 1,200 Douglas Aircraft stockholders gathered at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the company's final annual meeting. Seventy-two percent of the shareholders voted for merger with McDonnell Aircraft, which is expected to take place at month's end. Even after Donald W. Douglas Sr. described the "sharp and ultimately disastrous reversal of our fortunes," which meant a loss of $27.5 million in 1966, the shareholders gave him a standing ovation. Perhaps symbolic of Douglas' lackluster recent days was a movie shown to the gathering about its DC-8 jets...
...endowment includes long-term donations for scholarships, professorships, and building--both in the graduate schools and the College. More than anything else it tells the story of Harvard's financial condition from year to year. If the usual five percent return ever dropped to four per cent, tuition might have to be doubled to meet costs. And conversely an improvement of as little as 1/10 of a per cent brings an extra million dollars into the University's coffers...