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...last year. It was the endof six months of disease, treatment, hospitals,glimmers of hope, self-delusion, and finallydashed hopes. I had spent the year, part of it asmanaging editor of The Crimson, dashing betweenclasses, The Crimson, Dunster House, and Mt. SinaiHospital in New York. Occasionally, I would go toa movie or a party or on a date. But mostly lifewas one big mind-numbing and guywrenching dashfrom dorm room to hospital room...
...request of Puerto Rican Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, a Ponce native, President Reagan declared Ponce, Coamo, Santa Isabel and the Atlantic Coast town of Toa Baja disaster zones, making the U.S. commonwealth island eligible for federal relief funds. Hernandez Colon also joined some 3,000 mourners at Ponce's sports coliseum in a memorial service for 23 of the dead. The Governor has vowed to continue the search for victims "as long as humanly possible," while plans are under discussion to turn the Mameyes ravine into a memorial park. For many residents of the devastated barrio, the site is likely...
...program not only shows that there are alternative routes toa medical schools education but also raises questions about the traditional medical school training as it is often encountered in undergraduate programs, where fierce competition for grades and fear of rejection from medical schools weights heavily on the minds at all students especially those from lower and middle class backrounds. Motcover the traditional route often leaves the student with few career alternatives. A multipurpose education which provides stdents with very marketable skills as well as preparation for higher professional goals appears to be a noteworthy alternative...
...balmy morning last week, the yellow bus wheeled out of the U.S. Navy compound in Toa Baja, a San Juan suburb. Bouncing in their seats, the passengers-13 men and five women-dozed or talked quietly as they traveled the familiar route from the Sabana Seca Communications Station to a radio transmitter site four miles away. Nobody paid any attention to a green pickup truck that was following close behind...
Only 65 Airbuses are in service, but the consortium has 177 firm orders and 93 options from 21 airlines. It also has strong prospects for further buys from carriers that are not now customers, including Air Afrique, Britain's Laker Airways and Japan's domestic TOA. Lathière insists that present customers alone assure the consortium of the 360 sales it needs to break even on the A300, the 251-to 336-seat prime Airbus model...