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...dean of curriculum, Dr. David Solomon, that "the schools now cannot cover more than a small fraction of the total medical information available." Yet, paradoxically, several leading medical schools have come to the conclusion that the way to meet the problem is not to prolong medical education but to shorten it. Today, for virtually all physicians, education takes a minimum of nine years after high school: four in college, four in medical school, one in an internship. Specialists spend two to seven years more in an ill-paid residency...
Given the conditions of modern warfare, with escalation to the nuclear level an ever-present threat, such a tactical use of diplomacy comes as a welcome alternative to the battlefield. The "new diplomacy" may not bring about negotiations tomorrow, but the flexibility which Johnson has introduced may well shorten the war or limit its intensity. The Russians will probably first solidify their position in the North. The Hanoi-Moscow line might then soften, and a consequent softening by Washington and Saigon may follow. When and if that happens, historians will be left to debate whether the settlement that develops could...
...Crimson can shorten its passes and conquer the Quakers, it will have a good shot at the Ivy League title...
None of the political problems, however, could obscure the very real triumph that the day was meant to observe. The two-lane Mont Blanc tunnel, air-conditioned and equipped with ultramodern radar traffic control, will shorten the road between Paris and Rome by 125 miles-even more when the long winter snows close the Alpine passes. It is expected to be used by at least 1.2 million vehicles a year, each of which will pay tolls ranging from $3.25 (for a small European car) to $20 (for a bus). Just before its Italian entrance, a proud new road sign told...
...hands now dangle too close to her knees, and she faces more surgery to shorten her arms - operations that are technically more forbidding because of the delicate neuromuscular control needed for the hands. But she is anxious to get on with it. "The most wonderful moment of all," she says, "will be when I can walk down the street looking at other people instead of trying to hide from them...