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...look forward to returning to the mainstream of Southie High. During the spring of 1975, a group of South Boston High School teachers visited Thomson's Island and, apparently inspired by what they saw, returned to Southie to form an alternative "school-within-a-school" for select students. In the two years since, several other spin-off alternative programs have begun at Southie High. November says about half the Thomson Islanders apply for an alternative program when they leave the island, of that number, about 80 per cent are admitted. Hopes for a more comprehensive follow-up program hinge...
Harvard fears that a pro-Bakke decision might jeopardize the freedom universities now enjoy to select their own admissions procedures and develop their own means of overcoming discrimination. "The hopes induced by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, that within a generation racial inequalities in education would be eradicated, have not been realized. Universities need some elbow-room to experiment in their quest for solutions," the University's brief states...
Nowadays Pepper must face the same test that all elderly people who are working do: Can he handle the job? Chairing the Select Committee on Aging, Pepper is guiding through Congress the bill changing the mandatory-retirement laws. He is attacking this task as zestfully as he has countless others in his 28 years on the Hill. He has repeatedly raised the retirement issue in speeches and numerous articles on op-ed pages across the country...
...relentless as the toll of the years may be, doctors still find it extremely difficult to generalize about when old age begins. By popular reckoning in the U.S., the watershed year is 65. Yet there is such variability in the human condition that it is scientifically impossible to select a single year as the turning point, even for small groups of people. As Author-Physician Leopold Bellak points out: "Some people who are chronologically 80 are biologically only 60. Their bones, eyes, ears, skin-even reflexes and blood pressure -may be those one expects in a 60-year-old." Complicating...
...Health and the Environment is planning a hearing to consider possible amendments to the law. One, sponsored by the subcommittee chairman, Representative Paul Rogers of Florida, would force medical schools to expand their third-year classes by 5%-or ten students-whichever figure is greater, but would let them select the transfers themselves. Under another amendment, backed by the A.A.M.C., schools would choose their own transfer students and get paid for them as a bonus, but nobody would be required to take on third-year students...