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Four professors from Harvard are among 80 intellectuals from throughout the world who have been invited to a five-day symposium on United States problems to be held at Princeton starting December...
...expected, Hammond told a heart-disease symposium at Albany Medical College last week, the death rates after age 40 are higher for both men and women if they smoke cigarettes, if they are overweight, if they have high blood pressure, and if they don't exercise much. This holds true for deaths from both heart attacks and strokes...
Unfettered by Tradition. When Prescott opened its doors in 1966, it was conceived as a private, four-year liberal arts college "unfettered by any tradition that would limit its opportunity to relate itself dynamically to the emerging 21st century." That goal was explored at a symposium of 100 educators and businessmen sponsored by the Ford Foundation, resulting in funds for construction of the college's 43 buildings on 640 acres of rolling plain six miles north of Prescott, Ariz. Though present enrollment is only 186, Prescott plans to expand to a maximum...
...breath of outdated and ignorant monkish theology." Many more of the outcries, however, were couched in rhetoric that reflected personal anguish and disappointment at the decision. "You are not speaking as our Pope," protested Jesuit Philosopher Norris Clarke before a cheering crowd of 1,000 at a Fordham University symposium on the encyclical. "We can't hear you. We demand that you do not speak to us this...
When Is Death? One question on which the surgeons spent little time was the most basic of all: Are heart transplants morally justified? Since all the principals at the symposium had performed transplants, they had answered this question long ago in their own minds. But there remained some sticking points in medical ethics. How to determine the death of the donor? On three criteria there was general agreement: The patient must no longer have any natural heartbeat, or respiration, or reflexes. Beyond that, he must have a "flat" electroencephalogram-no "brain wave" activity-but for how long? After the closed...