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Author and Columbia Teachers College Professor DIANE RAVITCH at Reed College in Portland: "You have just completed what is widely regarded as an elite education, not because only an elite deserves a liberal education or can benefit by a liberal education, but because fewer and fewer American students are actually receiving an education of comparable quality and breadth. A liberal education is founded on the premise that knowledge is power and that ideas move the world. Or, this idea is expressed in what is known as the Law of Selective Advancement (a relative of Murphy's Law): 'The person...
...impossible to miss Irving's message, but his method of conveying it is ingenious in the extreme. The tale begins in the 1880s, when Wilbur Larch graduates from Bowdoin College in Maine. As a present his father buys the young man a night with a Portland prostitute. Larch gains from this experience a sense of shame, a case of gonorrhea and the conviction that he can do very nicely without any more sex in the future. During his years at Harvard Medical School, Larch develops a fondness for sniffing ether and a knowledge of the appalling problems that unwanted pregnancies...
...baseball team was among those stranded at O'Hare Thursday night. At La Guardia Airport in New York City, United tried to persuade other airlines to honor its passengers' tickets, but that did not always work. American Airlines refused to honor the United ticket held by Larry Scweber of Portland, Me. He wanted to go to Tulsa, but American told him that United had not put down the full fare. "Now my baggage is on the 9 a.m. flight to Tulsa," he said. "I'm angry...
...accompanying studies in the New England Journal focused on how a fish diet affects the body. Researchers at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland found that adding salmon oil to the diet seems to help lower the levels of triglycerides and a type of cholesterol known as VLDL (very-low-density lipoprotein) in patients with high levels of these potentially dangerous fatty substances. According to Dr. William Connor, who headed the study, as much as 30% of the adult American population has high levels of these fats. In the past, these people have been advised to avoid fatty fishes...
DIED. Charles Shipman Payson, 86, sportsman, philanthropist and industrialist (steel, uranium, oil and railroads), and with his late first wife, Heiress Joan Whitney Payson, long a mainstay of the social columns; in Lexington, Ky. Born in Maine, Payson donated more than $23 million to the Portland Museum of Art and was also a major backer of the America's Cup yachts. After his second marriage in 1977 to Virginia Kraft, then a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED editor, they established their own breeding farm, racing stable and training center...