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Critics of this argument are always quick to cite the Health, Education and Welfare administrator who, when he heard that blacks weren't taking religious studies because they did not have a strong knowledge of Greek and Hebrew, two prerequisites, told the school to get rid of the two languages and include more modern languages. The analogy is too easily and inconsiderately applied. If there is no clear link between the scientific knowledge and clinical performance, then what is so outrageous about making the curriculum fit today's present need for more doctors in impoverished areas...
...burns off a few strands at a time, starting at the front of the crown and working down to the earlobes and around the back. The acrid stench of burning hair fills the air. After ten minutes of work, Helmholz shuts off his torch, shampoos the hair to get rid of the smell and dries it under a heat lamp...
...Rid the City. Meanwhile, Mayor Young tried desperately to keep the situation from deteriorating. He announced that "strong young men and women from the schools, the churches, the union halls and the block clubs" will be recruited as a volunteer back-up force for the police. The city will seek more juvenile judges and a new county jail. It will request authority for judges, rather than state social workers, to incarcerate juvenile offenders. A 40-member economic-growth council will be formed to help ease "the crushing burden of unemployment." Earlier, Young had declared, "I want the pimps, prostitutes, gangs...
...rzburg, they brought in two exorcists-Father Arnold Renz, a former missionary in China, and Father Ernst Alt, a pastor in a nearby community. For ten months, beginning last September and continuing until shortly before her death, the two priests conducted an intermittent series of exorcisms to rid Anneliese of six demons they believed possessed her. The efforts were of no avail. About Easter time, her convulsions returned with renewed ferocity, and she began to refuse food and drink. No doctors were called...
...qualified, call Kennecott Copper Co. in New York City -and call collect. soon as the U.S.'s biggest copper company acquired Peabody in 1968, the FTC charged it with violation of a dubious antitrust law. That led to a formal FTC ruling in 1971 that Kennecott must get rid of Peabody. The order demanded a divestiture that ranks with the largest in American business history and expanded antitrust law to say, in effect, big mergers and acquisitions are almost by definition...