Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MBTA subway service between Harvard and South Station was interrupted for an hour yesterday afternoon after a Harvard-bound train became disabled. Cambridge firemen were called to extinguish several small fires along the right-of-way near Kendall Station. There were no injuries...
According to the Cambridge Fire Department, the train became disabled at 2:16 p.m. and sparks from the third rail set fire to several piles of rubbish along the tracks...
...human behavior as a succession of physical reflex responses to stimuli coming from the environment. It was the environment alone, he felt, that determined what a man is: "Give me a dozen healthy infants," he wrote in 1925, "and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select?doctor, lawyer, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities." The goal of this Watsonian behaviorism was the prediction and control of behavior?which suited Skinner to perfection...
Several countries of varying medical affluence apparently agree. The government of Cameroun has established a health institute in Yaoundé to train a variety of nonprofessional practitioners. The U.S. Government is also interested in the idea. It is sponsoring programs to use former military corpsmen as Medex, or physicians' assistants, and has already put several to work in doctors' offices in the Pacific Northwest...
...overall airlines malaise (see story, page 80), were doing record business, transporting loads that included heavy machinery, transistor radios, beer, and even hogs for stud. The only alternative for importers was to find a port just outside the U.S., where goods could be off-loaded and shipped by train or truck to their destinations. Ship captains are permitted to drop cargoes at any "port of convenience" in the event of a strike. Many have decided to do just that, thereby considerably changing life around Vancouver, B.C., and Ensenada, Mexico-ports just across the Western U.S. borders...