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Financial aid is generally not one of Harvard's sore spots. Harvard's financial situation in the past has been solvent enough to provide for most students who have been able to prove, under the guidelines of the College Scholarship Service that Harvard subscribes to, that they actually need financial...
...Required meeting of Harvard and Radcliffe freshmen who have been notified that they are eligible for sophomore standing. Advanced placement is a real sore spot among freshmen--some people who never even had advanced placement courses in their high schools, now come here and find that a third of the class is eligible. Don't let it worry you, but if it really does, keep up your image and attend the meeting even if you didn't amass a lot of "fives." It's especially boss to say that you go a couple of fives on the A.P. even though...
...written five books on herbs. Many of the new herb fanciers are rediscovering ancient health cures. Genine Kepnis, manager of the Organic Food Cellar in Cambridge, Mass., says that one salubrious seller is goldenseal, Hydrastis canadensis, which is used as a cure-all for complaints ranging from sore throats to poison ivy. "It even makes a good mouthwash," says Kepnis. "Herbs have become so popular," she notes, "that they are replacing both drugs and supermarket brand-name spices...
...herbs have undisputed medicinal value. As Dorothy Hall points out in The Book of Herbs (Scribners; $7.95), to be published next month, "some of our old grandmothers' recipes are proving to be not so old-hat after all." For example, horehound, an age-old relief for coughs and sore throats, still sells briskly. Sage and mint teas, to name only two, are widely used to treat colds; and aspirin is made from salicylic acid, the essential chemical in willow bark, known as a palliative since the dawn of time. Safflower has long been grown for what is now known...
...result of Sore Throat's leaks, Congressmen and Senators are talking of holding hearings on A.M.A. activities in order to determine whether they violate laws on political activities by corporations. The IRS also has for some time been trying to decide whether the A.M.A.'s activities should cost it its tax-exempt status, and the Postal Service is reviewing the A.M.A.'s second-class mailing privileges (along with those of other organizations). But the revelations have yet to force any visible changes in the organization's policies. Sammons remains firmly in charge and, despite growing disenchantment...