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Doty, an expert on the social and ethical issues of nuclear war who worked on the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb, was not available for comment...
...addition to the new Middle East program, which will bring social workers from Israel and several Arabic nations to Harvard for the year, the Kennedy School recently announced a Costa Rican fellowship program named in honor of Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias and several other programs which will allow Eastern Europeans and Israelis to study here...
...notify student groups of the change--because they wanted to give "a new flair and new form of presentation" to the tabling. They sure did. The "Extracurricular Circus" was held last Friday night from eight to midnight. Of course, besides the fact that it may have interfered with the social plans of freshmen and upperclassmen who have better things to do on the weekend than read the literature of the Society for Creative Anachronism, there was the added problem that it gets dark at night. About half the organizations represented fit beneath the lighted tent in front of Lamont...
Meanwhile, many social workers and veterans groups are advocating a more modest approach. Rather than using technology to change the patient, they are changing the technology so the patient can use it. "The key words are access, independence and achievement," says Alan Brightman, director of Apple Computer's office of special education. "If you can only wrinkle your eyebrow, I've got a switch that will enable you to input data into a computer. And once you've got access to the machine, you've got access to the world...
...There's a real debate in the public health community about the effectiveness of mass media campaigns," DeJong said. He said critics of such campaigns often look for immediate behavioral changes rather than focusing on future benefits. "Obviously, the mass media had a major role to play in shifting social norms from smoking to non-smoking. You really need to take a long-term view," DeJong said...