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Two recent medical advances, however, should lessen these problems. The first is the use of ultrasound scanning. High-frequency-sound-wave tests, given to many expectant mothers to check fetal development, can detect a cleft palate if administered in the last few weeks before birth. Devised by doctors at the...
For decades, the standard way to straighten out a child's curved spine was with a bulky back brace. Worn for up to eight years, it was not a pleasant prospect for the 25 out of 1,000 American teen-agers (90% girls) afflicted with spinal curvatures, or scoliosis...
When Lemmon, on his way back to the United States at the end of the movie, warns the U S officials in Chile, "I just thank God we still live in a country where people like you can still be put in jail," we detect more than a note of...
This unpleasant set of circumstances led to an even more abhorrent outcome. Associate Dean for Education Sidney Verba, in a letter for the Faculty Council, told us: "The Faculty Council will not accept special representation for designated groups." What this meant to us was that if someone could not be...
Despite this disappointing outcome--or perhaps more accurately because of it--students will finally be able to decide the future of Harvard student government in the referendum on the constitution next week. I view the process with which the document was produced and in which many of us were closely...