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Moving beyond the concerns specific to pre-med students, I am struck by how rushed we are to make decisions. A Harvardesque standard of fluency in a language is required in order to study abroad. But what if you realize in the second semester of your sophomore year that you would love to go to Florence for your junior year but have never taken Italian? I guess you can take day trips to Florence from England, but most likely you will just shrug your shoulders and say, "Oh well, maybe when I graduate." And yet, there...
...dearth of whites led a federal court to order the city of Detroit to integrate its schools with those of 53 surrounding districts. In 1974 the Supreme Court struck down that order, holding in Milliken v. Bradley that suburban districts could not be ordered to help desegregate a city's schools unless those suburbs had been involved in illegally segregating them in the first place. Justice Thurgood Marshall warned in dissent that the court had set a course that would allow "our great metropolitan areas to be divided up each into two cities--one white, the other black...
...With my new spouse the Spy? I see her a couple times a week." Seeing that Babbs and I are dumb struck, Dr. Leary laughs and says, "I certainly don't hold it against her. She likes this espionage action. It gets her off. Who am I, of all people, to put down somebody else's turn-on?" And that's my little flower for Tim. Give 'em while they can smell...
...folks in Alice, Texas, have good reason to be nervous around monkeys. Six years ago, several Philippine macaques imported by the Texas Primate Center in Alice came down with the strain of Ebola virus that had struck monkeys in Reston, Virginia, a year earlier, in a case that inspired the best-selling book The Hot Zone and the movie Outbreak. No humans got sick in either incident, but 100 animals had to be sacrificed...
These anxious words instantly struck a chord. Forty-one American newspapers and magazines reprinted them. Letters and phone calls flooded the office of Cleveland Press editor Louis Seltzer to tell him he had put his finger on our gravest crisis with his editorial--in the summer...