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florence Nightingale opened up another form of employment that eventually became accessible to larger numbers of women--nursing Nightingale wanted women to open up a sphere of employment historically reserved exclusively for men and she also wanted to reform the nursing profession, whose standards were extremely low in the early 19th century Insisting that women were entirely responsible for their inferior position in society. Nightingale set up a training school for women nurses and enforced rigorous standards. Graduates of the Nightingale School soon built up a reputation for extreme competence This, along with the story of Nightingale's successes...
dergulated, inspires cells to multiply beyond their normal sphere, with deleterious effects on their host...
Calkins' strong involvement in the investment issue exemplifies an informal arrangement within the Corporation whereby each member has a specific sphere of influence. While Calkins is the investment policy man. Andrew Heiskell says he helps decide who gets honorary degrees at Commencement. Charles P. Slichter '45, a noted professor of physics at the University of Illinois, is respected for his judgement on academic questions. Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, is elected to the Corporation shortly before the University launched the $350 million Harvard Campaign," which Stone co-chaired. He has served as the Corporation's fundraising whiz. The newest member...
...feeble light of the distant sun, Voyager 2 hurtled toward Uranus last week, rapidly accelerating under the gravitational pull of the huge gaseous body. Aboard the spacecraft, two television cameras and an array of instruments focused on the ever enlarging sphere and its rings and moons, snapping pictures and taking readings that were beamed to earth, almost 2 billion miles away. At week's end, as Voyager whipped past the mysterious blue-green planet, soaring as close as 50,679 miles to its cloudtops at 42,143 m.p.h., streams of new data from the craft poured into the control room...
...long time. They were friends when we needed them and there are many issues on which we think alike without having to align with each other. That doesn't mean that we don't want to be friends with the U.S. We want to improve our relations in every sphere with the U.S. But we want to keep our option of individuality open...