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...shrinkage because their doctoral candidates will find, as so many are now finding, that there is no market for their skills. Indeed, of all the immediate challenges facing the major research universities--to sustain research libraries, to support academic science in the context of a university population that will shrink, to plan the direction of medical education, to finance graduate students and to embrace part-time or older students in new patterns--of all these challenges, the most difficult and internally consequential will be the need to attract into the academic profession the ablest and most dedicated young...
...exteriors shrink, automakers are turning more and more to front-wheel drive as a way to maintain interior space; it eliminates the transmission hump in the floorboards. Buick's Riviera has front-wheel drive for 1979. In the spring, GM will introduce a front-wheel drive Chevy Nova. Ford has lagged behind GM and Chrysler (with its Omni/Horizon) in getting into front-wheel drive; its only entry in the field now is the Fiesta, which it makes in Spain and sells in the U.S. But Ford intends to produce a front-wheel-drive car domestically...
Under ordinary circumstances such scanty evidence would have made little impact upon the NCI. Even in cancer victims who have had no treatment, tumors occasionally shrink and even disappear-possibly because the victims' immune systems become reinvigorated. Thus, in the two submitted cases, Upton says, "there was no way we could conclude confidently that remission resulted from Laetrile." Furthermore, in most laboratory tests, Laetrile has had no effect on animals with cancer-the reason that the NCI has given in the past for refusing to begin testing of humans. Still, the increasing political pressure apparently had its effect...
...personally have never heard any of these groups play, but I get paid under the table to push them. Ha ha ha, just kidding. No, really, I was. I do this for free, out of love for my fellow students, and because if I went to a shrink he would charge me $50 an hour to listen to me while you do it free. Thank you. Non sequitur Eric B. Fried
...first observed in the 1860s and had puzzled astronomers for decades. Though the star was apparently small, it exerted an inexplicably great gravitational pull on Sirius. The dense little companion?like others that have been observed since?was a white dwarf. But would bigger stars, with greater gravity, shrink into still smaller, even more dense bundles...