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Berry hopes his precautions will make medication unnecessary. "Prescribing a cardiac drug on the lunar surface from 250,000 miles away would be a first that I would prefer to avoid," he says. But Berry hopes to score a first by learning-with greater precision than last time-how much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Heart Trouble in Space? | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

Substantive issues aside, there are broad methodological questions which arise in connection with the political and legal debates about investment policy. The arguments introduced are not tested against some eternal objective standard. Rather, political and legal positions do or do not prevail against the best argument that can be brought...

Author: By Steven E. Levy, Wesley E. Profit, and Charles F. Sabel, S | Title: Getting Off Without a Conviction: Harvard's Killings in the Market | 4/19/1972 | See Source »

Morgan Maxfield--a student in the program and chairman of the class association that made the trip--said the trip was undertaken to "view the precision with which NASA makes decisions."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PMD Group Sees Apollo 16 Launch | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

As the second biennial Arctic Winter Games got under way this month in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, it became painfully clear that the organization of the event left something to be desired. Take the case of Simon Tookoome, the Northwest Territories' leading ipirautaqturniq (precision whip flicking) virtuoso. Not only did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anyone for Aqraorak? | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

The pattern of discrimination does not stop at the executive suite. Indeed, the lack of women in skilled jobs and middle management almost guarantees that few will make it to the peak. At California's Pacific Gas & Electric, for example, 94% of women employees are clerks and secretaries. Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOBS: SLOW GAINS At WORK | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

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