Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LEGISLATORS AND EDUCATORS finally took steps in the right direction last week towards addressing one of the most dangerous problems confronting American society today--the alarming shortage of mathematics and science teachers in secondary schools. A spate of new proposals would reverse the decline in math and science teaching--both...
The House of Representatives approved a bill last Wednesday that would allocate $1 billion over the next five years to improving math and science teaching in the public schools through grants to states and local school districts. Though the measure is stopgap in itself, its strength lies in a provision...
Were Meryl Streep, 33, to do a screen version of Romeo and Juliet, with, say, Robert De Niro, their twinned compulsion to "get into" the hearts of their roles might take them so far that an undertaker would have to be included in the closing credits. So finicky is Streep...
There are as yet no formal ethical guidelines on TV surgery, but a number of doctors reacted with personal criticism of Diethrich. "This was strictly a publicity stunt," said Tucson Cardiologist Burt Strug. "It degrades the medical profession to the level of used-car salesmen." Observed Harvard Heart Surgeon John...
If this luck holds, perhaps, as Thomas suggests people will someday see the medical profession become more humanely attend as well as technically advanced.