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...successful, University officials hope the informal meeting will produce a national forum at Harvard in the spring on the issue of minorities in academia. Observers said an unprecedented gathering of this kind could prompt other schools to follow Harvard's lead in solving the problem...
...fastest growing age group in the U.S. proportionately is the over-85s, he reports, and children born this year can expect to live 16 years longer than their grandparents born in 1930. Such statistics prompt visions of a life-span beyond 100 years, a prospect Callahan finds alarming. In the past two decades, the amount of the federal budget spent on those over 65 leaped from 15% to 28%; and the $80 billion spent in health care for the old in 1981 is expected to pass $200 billion by the year 2000. The result is a serious threat...
Despite her anguish, Pierson never once sought help from any adult. Prosecutor Edward Jablonski and others are worried that sentences as lenient as Pierson's might prompt other abused children to seek revenge. More frightening is the possibility that some unbalanced children may use alleged abuse as a pretext for killing their parents. Says Judge Vincent J. Femia of Upper Marlboro, Md., who has handled several parricide cases: "In effect, the defendant can argue that he did something that should have been done for the community...
...identified only as Rubio staggered ashore in Nagua and provided the first word of the tragedy. Others drifted with the current as far as 20 miles out to sea and into shark-filled waters. Some of the victims might have been saved had prompt measures been taken after Rubio's alert. Yet military authorities, complained Civil Defense Director Cabral, did not respond to his call for rescue helicopters. In a desperate effort to locate the survivors himself, he commandeered a private plane, from which he watched the sickening scene. Said Cabral: "If we had helicopters, we could have pulled some...
Michaelson said that only the university's corporation can prompt divestiture and that the Board of Aldermen has no influence over local tax rates...