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...return to normalcy never occurred. The College, bloated from the 3,500 students for which it was designed to the 5,300 which it took in 1946, grew even larger in the next few years. Administrators expected the Class of 1950 to undergo "shrinkage" as the veterans simmered in Harvard's crucible, but the veterans' success undid their plans...
...just to make sure that the spot is really harmless. "There certainly will be some people whose lives are saved [by the screening]," says Dr. Ron Arenson at the University of California, San Francisco. "But you have to weigh that against maybe thousands of patients who have had to undergo unnecessary procedures, each with its own attendant risks...
...entire football coaching staff will be required to attend an NCAA compliance seminar and to take a closed-book exam on the NCAA's rules. The executive director of the Brown Sports Foundation will also be required to undergo similar seminars and the test...
Many of the countries in the deepest demographic trouble have imposed aggressive family-planning programs, only to see them go badly--even criminally--awry. In the 1970s, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi tried to reduce the national birthrate by offering men cash and transistor radios if they would undergo vasectomies. In the communities in which those sweeteners failed, the government resorted to coercion, putting millions of males--from teenage boys to elderly men--on the operating table. Amid the popular backlash that followed, Gandhi's government was turned out of office, and the public rejected family planning...
Were Harvard to receive approval from the MCNDC, plans would likely undergo further alterations as the proposal passes through other city boards for approval. Each board would have the power to block Knafel construction...