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...than their public-school counterparts in reading and math. A 1990 report by the Rand Corp., for instance, found that low-income parochial-school students averaged 803 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, compared with a 642 average in regional public schools. The Catholic-school hierarchy is counting on the spread of vouchers to reverse a long drop in enrollments. Already, non-Catholics make up 13.2% of Catholic-school enrollment, thanks to parents who know a good thing when they...
Some general practitioners are certainly enthusiastic. Culver City, California, doctor Ben Krentzman, a family physician, came out of retirement in 1993 to spread the gospel about fen/phen. He now treats some 300 patients--and so far has tallied 63,000 visitors to his Science of Obesity and Weight Control Website. Krentzman's contrarian advice, based on several months of library work and an ongoing experiment begun last year: take the pills instead of worrying about diet and exercise. Says Krentzman: "Dieting and exercise without fen/phen don't keep people slender, so why should they work with fen/phen...
...fatally shotgunning four unresisting victims during motel and convenience-store holdups. But his transformation, he insists, should be judged separately from his crimes. Arriving at San Quentin in 1981 as a feared gangsta godfather, Williams was content for years to watch sullenly from death row as gang violence spread--and with it, an urban nightmare...
...visit, Enes Kujindzic, the director of Bosnia's national library, caught the ear of Andras J. Riedlmayer, a bibliographer in Islamic art and architecture in the University's Fine Arts Library, and Jeffrey B. Spurr, Islamic art cataloguer in the Aga Khan Program. They then began to help him spread the news of the libraries' plight...
Promising as it is, ProMED has a long way to go. The network does nothing to address the underlying causes of new and re-emerging infectious diseases. In order effectively to prevent the rapid spread of communicable diseases--whether familiar ones such as malaria, relatively new ones such as Ebola or mysteries like hantavirus--sanitation and sewerage systems have to be built, and the public has to be educated about hygiene...