Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refugees are worse off than their predecessors, who came with the first wave of Indochinese refugees after South Viet Nam fell. While earlier refugees often brought some money with them, most of the latest immigrants have bartered their cash for their lives and must begin penniless. According to a report by the General Accounting Office, the newcomers are generally less educated and less likely to speak English. The GAO found that "some refugees, particularly some Hmong Laotians, cannot read or write in their own languages and are virtually unexposed to Western culture." They must be taught, it continued...
...view from the Lebanese side is strikingly different, as TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Dean Brelis discovered when he visited the area last week with Beirut Reporter Abu Said Abu Rish. Brelis' report...
...I.L.O. issues a grim report...
...upstate New York school, Social Psychologists Harry Reis and Ladd Wheeler of Rochester and John Nezlek of William and Mary found that physical attractiveness is a great advantage to men, but not to women. The beautiful and the plain spend about the same amount of time with men and report the same amount of satisfaction. The women who do best are those with average to good looks. Says Wheeler: "These borderline women seem very satisfied in their relationships with the opposite...
Harvard Assistant Professor Phin Cohen, an M.D. and biochemist, was studying human blood chemistry under a $200,000 research grant from the National Institutes of Health in 1972, when an aide to his department chairman asked him to sign a form. Innocuously titled "Report of Expenditures," it was designed to explain how Cohen's federal research money had been spent. Trouble was, the copy shown Cohen was blank. He asked for a list of expenditures. No, he was told, other researchers customarily signed blank forms. Administrators filled in the items later. Cohen persisted, and was warned by the School...