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The top-rated clinics can honestly boast that up to 17% of their patients become parents as a result of IVF. But some lesser operations apparently cite similar potential success rates in their come-ons, even though their own performance may be far worse. Says Geoffrey Sher, medical director of...
...Harvard's way is the way you'd learn a foreign language if you were just thrown into the streets of Paris--it's like Berlitz," says Roman L. Weil, professor of accounting and director of the Institute of Professional Accounting at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. "I don't teach Berlitz. It's not merely how to get along. We want to go deeper than that--we want our people to be leaders in their profession...
Rickey Ross, 40, a Los Angeles narcotics investigator, was stopped by cops for driving erratically. Ross, an 18-year veteran, was accompanied by a prostitute, though he insisted that he did not know about her profession. The woman said they were smoking cocaine.
"I don't think there are going to be a lot of people saying they want to teach past 70. Most people I know really want to leave at age 65," says Lowell Professor of the Humanties William Alfred '49. "It doesn't look like a tough profession but it...
The dean also said that while she favors experimentation in alternative teacher certification, the Bush proposal might present certain problems. Under the new program, people who have mastered a subject in their profession can bypass certification programs and teach without training.