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...football field in size and the second largest indoor swimming pool in the state. The much esteemed math and science departments?which offer such courses as computer programming, calculus and earth science?have at their command a computer with eleven keyboards The facilities for vocational education, which train 471 of Medford's 3,548 students, include a fully equipped school of cosmetology When Medford High opened seven years ago, after an older facility burned, it cost more than $16 million?the most money the town had ever spent on anything. Medford's 60,300 residents, many of them blue-collar...
...think, to be creative, and to realize the not everything comes from God. Man has to build his own hut if the needs a place to sleep. The colonial educational system has proven to be erroneous and ridiculous. Most of our universities built in colonial days were designed to train a civil service but not educate men that would come to grips with the African problem. Thus colonial institutions became a means of ex-exploitation, and religion a mere imploration of words...
...Agoraphobia is not a true phobia. It's one phase of an anxiety state." Weekes, author of Simple, Effective Treatment of Agoraphobia, has treated 1,200 agoraphobics in person and 4,000 more with records, tapes and letters. In her opinion, behaviorists are on the wrong track when they train agoraphobics to avoid panic. Says she: "Recovery lies in the attack itself and learning to cope with it. If you teach people to avoid panic, when it comes, they fall apart and relapse." Her advice: "float" with the anxiety attack, don't fight...
Turning to another unorthodox tactic, a Chicago doctor, Seymour Diamond, is treating migraines with biofeedback. Using machines that signal physical changes in the body with beeps or flashing lights, Diamond has been able to train some patients at his headache clinic to raise temperatures in the hand by as much as 10° to 15°. As he explains in his recent book More than Two Aspirin (Follett; $8.95), higher temperatures mean an increased flow of blood there?and presumably a reduction elsewhere, including the head. Almost invariably, he reports, the technique stops headaches. Still another imaginative treatment has been introduced...
However, he has a well-planned strategy for the Radcliffe racers. "I look at the girl's three-mile course as a speed race. We train for a strong first mile around 5:20 to establish dominance at the start. I condition the girls with speed/endurance intervals; first we do a few fast, then rest, and do several at a slower pace," Hunt explained...