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...current crop of radicals is sucked into the rat race, the issue will probably lie dormant for several more years. At the Law School, student protests prompted a postponement of the implementation of the new grading policy. It sounded like a concession, but a one-year delay in a transient community is more likely to make the issue fade...
...grass in the morning, the dryness of leaves in the evening: nothing is fixed in a schema. Constable became convinced that he must overcome the stasis that convention and idealism produce in art: his project would then be, as he put it, "to arrest the more abrupt and transient appearances of the Chiaroscuro in Nature . . . to give 'to one brief moment, caught from fleeting time' a lasting and sober existence...
County officials, who avoid the word poorhouse, maintain that their emergency shelter is better than the usual alternative facing the poor: having to live in seedy and often dangerous transient hotels. Says Hart: "Here at least you can get a hot meal and clothes and not be worried about getting mugged." In addition, he says, the shelter, which is run on a contract basis by a Christian service organization called the Volunteers of America, is achieving the desired effect: trimming the county's dole roll. In November 1981 the county had 805 applicants for welfare. In November 1982, shortly...
Furthermore, construction on the Red Line has altered the area's shape and appearance, while attracting more outside consumers and pushing rents up even higher. The type of stores coming in have been what Dean Johnson, an active member of the Defense Fund, calls "youth-oriented." catering to the transient needs of students and not to the people living in the area...
Despite the initial success, the researchers remain extremely cautious. Though only one patient experienced mild and transient nausea and vomiting, doctors worry about administering a toxic anticancer drug forlong periods. Another concern: What other genes are being altered? A fear is that the drug approach may inadvertently switch on recently discovered cancer genes that apparently lie dormant in most people. Nonetheless, noted Hematologist Edward Benz of Yale University School of Medicine, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the NEJM, "this research represents a major new step in treating disease and demonstrates beyond doubt that genetic manipulation has come...