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...recently formed Environmental Action Committee is another example of a group designed to deal with a previously unmet need. The third new committee, Community Health, is a revamping of the Community Medical Program, which placed volunteers as orderlies in hospitals. The new program, instead, will work primarily in community health clinics, preventitive medicine, and alternative health care options...
Joining Tredway in the winner's circle was Cornell's freshman netminder Brian Hayward, who neutralized the Harvard attack with 26 saves in the triumph that moved the Big Red into third place in Division. One of the ECAC with a 9-5 record...
...Exactly one week before Pope John Paul II inaugurated the third Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM III), security troops burst into a retreat center in El Salvador, killed Father Octavio Ortiz Luna and four youths, and arrested the rest. The military government of President General Carlos Humberto Romero said the church house was a guerrilla base. At a Requiem Mass last week, activist Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, no kin to the Salvadoran dictator and his most outspoken foe, denounced the government accusations as "lies...
...youths born during the postwar baby boom have flooded into the job market. Many lacked the training and experience to become highly productive workers in their first few years. By the CEA's estimate, industry's reliance on them to fill jobs has lowered productivity more than a third of a point per year...
This hostile distinction between religion and science has softened in the last third of the 20th century. Both religion and science have become self-consciously aware of their excesses, even of their capacity for evil. Now they find themselves jostled into a strange metaphysical intimacy. Perhaps the most extraordinary sign of that intimacy is what appears to be an agreement between religion and science about certain facts concerning the creation of the universe. It is the equivalent of the Montagues and Capulets collaborating on a baby shower...