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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost every educational gauge, young Asian Americans are soaring. They are finishing way above the mean on the math section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test and, according to one comprehensive study of San Diego-area students, outscoring their peers of other races in high school grade-point averages. They spend more time on their homework, a researcher at the U.S. Department of Education found, take more advanced high school courses and graduate with more credits than other American students. A higher percentage of these young people complete high school and finish college than do white American students. Trying to explain...
...other students. Westinghouse Prizewinner John Kuo recalls that in Taiwan he was accustomed to studying two or three hours a night. "Here we had half an hour at the most." To make up the difference, John and his two brothers were often given extra assignments at home. "Asian parents spend much more time with their children than American parents do, and it helps," says his brother David...
Future historians will no doubt find different source material. Instead of rummaging through the Beinecke Library at Yale, they will spend their time in video archives watching old segments of Nightline and the MacNeil-Lehrer report. "So much is preserved in audio and visual these days," says Morris, "that it gives you much of a person's life and demeanor." Well, yes, the historians of the next century will be a lot more accurate in their portrayal of how people looked and spoke. But it is naive to believe that the way Caspar Weinberger answers a Ted Koppel question about...
...hours are endless. The pay is paltry. The tasks are often menial, the responsibilities terrifying. And for this, one must spend four years slaving in medical school and acquiring a debt that averages more than $30,000. For decades, doctors have argued the merits of medical residency -- the grueling and sleepless years of specialty training that constitute a rite of passage into American medical practice. Senior physicians defend the traditional residency as a necessary part of the toughening-up process for professionals who must deal with emergencies and late-night awakenings throughout their careers. Young residents complain that...
What has changed is not only the intensity of the training but the work itself. Today's trainees spend far more time dealing with administrative detail, owing in part to the omnipresent fear of malpractice suits. "You spend a lot of time doing paperwork because of the so-called medical-legal environment," says Lora Wiggins, an intern at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, Long Island. "You're exhausted, and you are dealing with two kinds of criteria for how you act." To add to the burdens, today's hospital patients tend, as a group, to be more sick than ever...