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Take tri-captain Todd Hooks, for example. Yesterday he was Harvard's version of the Six Million Dollar Man. In the early events of the afternoon, Hooks blazed to a meet record finish in the sprint relay along with teammates Joe Salvo, Len Reynolds and Ralph Polillio. But Hooks later took a hard tumble on the last hurdle of the highs as Paul Organ set another meet record...
...every salvo from the critics, though, a return round comes from defenders of recombinant DNA research. Bernard Davis, a Harvard Medical School microbiologist, is so sure the new technique is safe that he has publicly offered to drink recombinant DNA. He insists that those who worry about infections are totally ignorant of medicine's long history of safely handling highly contagious bacteria and viruses. Nor, he says, do they understand how difficult it is for a microbe to become pathogenic. He adds: "Those who claim we are letting loose an Andromeda strain are either hysterics or are trying...
...uncorked a brilliant scoring salvo going around the last four holes in two under fours to draw within two of Tervainen. He feathered a seven-iron onto the par three second but misread the break on his birdie putt over the undulating green...
Fitzgibbons also birdied the par five 14th with a salvo of four flawless shots. He cleared the water hazard that guards the 14th green on his second shot, a 4-iron he caught flush, but the ball kicked off the slope of the green and he needed a chip and a putt for his birdie...
...manifesto, issued last week by the new presidents of four small liberal arts colleges (Bard, Bennington, Scripps and Wheaton), is the latest salvo in a major debate now roiling many academic institutions. With the tuition cost of a private liberal arts education soaring to as high as $5,500 a year, colleges are finding it increasingly difficult to justify the expense-particularly since many of their graduates cannot find jobs. Practical "vocational" programs have become popular. Just last year T.H. Bell, then U.S. Commissioner of Education, declared, "It is our duty to provide our students with salable skills...