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According to data provided by the new organization, U.S. schools will have to hire 1.5 million new teachers between 1988 and 1997, while facing the loss of up to 900,000 of the nation's 2.3 million teachers to retirement by the year 2000.
Corporate sponsors including Apple Computer, Inc., Merck, Mobil Oil, Morgan Stanley, Xerox Corporation, Prudential and Union Carbide Corporation are backing Teach for America. Start-up costs for the teaching group will reach $2 million in its first year, the group stated.
The women's team hopes to improve its play this weekend at the Princeton Invitational. While the men's team had to drive three hours for the easy victory yesterday, it will have to drive a much longer distance this Saturday to match up against another inferior squad--Cornell.
"In general we were disappointed," Holleran said, "but it ended up all right. That's not our best play."
The Board of Health imposed a one-month quarantine on sporting events involving Northeastern squads after two Northeastern students contracted measles on November 8. The order only exempted adults over the age of 33, whose bodies had apparently built up immunity to the virus. Suspiciously youthful fans were carded at...