Word: solomon
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...Solomon islanders get hypertension, coronary diseases, and other ailments of modern society? The National Institute of Health has awarded a grant to Dr. Albert Damon '38, fellow in Medical Anthropology, in order to find...
Damon will receive $68,544 to cover first-year expenses of a proposed seven-year study of Solomon Island societies "to relate culture to disease, and vice versa...
Specialists in the group will investigate ailments such as hypertension and coronary heart disease, which are found in more advanced societies, but absent in Solomon Island cultures...
Dividing Baby? Like King Solomon's legendary decision ordering the baby divided between the contending women, this would be no solution at all. The French faction would not think of accepting it without being guaranteed equal facilities-an item estimated to cost a minimum of $500 million. Even if this were miraculously arranged, the massive international prestige of Louvain would be maimed. Though both the Flemish-and French-speaking faculties of the university are equally eminent, most of the 2,000 foreign students (out of a total enrollment of 20,000) speak French rather than Flemish...
...learned so much about medicine, says U.C.L.A.'s 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...