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...Pathway was conceived three years ago as a radical new approach to training doctors, a seven-year plan that would have taken students after their sophomore year in college and carried them through one integrated chain encompassing the final two undergraduate years, four years of med school, and the first year of "residency," or hospital training...
Four members of the Harvard medical community will each receive $3 million under a new seven-year grant program administered by the National Cancer Institute...
...seemed that the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. had simply gone out of business. In Manhattan, the bosses of the Wall Street stock exchanges and most banks decided to close house, in Atlantic City the managers of sleepless gambling casinos shut down for the first time in their seven-year existence, in Norfolk the Navy got most of its ships out of the harbors to ride out the trouble, and all over the East the Air Force ordered its planes to the safety of inland air bases...
...odds against him when he challenged Larry Holmes, 35, Spinks, 29, fought on through 15 grueling, if unstirring, rounds to a unanimous decision and his 28th straight victory, making him the first light-heavyweight champion in history to win the heavyweight title. Spinks' upset ended the seven-year reign of his opponent, who was just one fight away from matching Rocky Marciano's all-time heavyweight record of 49 wins without a loss. In 1978 Spinks' older brother Leon took the heavyweight championship from Muhammad Ali for seven months, and the Spinkses are the first brothers to be kings...
...days, for $10,000, a short film called Amblin', about a boy and a girl hitchhiking from the desert to the Pacific Ocean. The day after Spielberg showed the film at Universal, he was called in by Sidney Jay Sheinberg, head of TV production, and offered a seven-year contract to direct Universal TV series. He was 20 years old. "I quit college," Spielberg says, "so fast I didn't even clean out my locker...