Word: virginia
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Mark, a senior from West Virginia who is graduating today with high honors in Anthropology, is one such other-directed person who has finally (and barely) achieved his goal of being admitted to medical school. His commitment to medicine, particularly rural medicine in his home state, is unimpeachable. He spent last summer researching a summa cum laude anthropology thesis on rural health care delivery in Clay County, W. Va. For another summer, he worked in a clinic in Morgantown...
...anthropology work was done under the tutelage of a medical anthropologist with a Ph. D. and an M.D. and his science grades were high, Mark was rejected at every medical school to which he applied. Finally, at the beginning of this month, he was notified that West Virginia University had reevaluated his application and accepted...
...easily verifiable facts are that I have given speeches for the President in Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, Indiana, Pennsylvania and California...
...court's ruling upheld a lower-court decision against the Virginia State Board of Pharmacy, and was aimed specifically at a state statute that declares it "unprofessional conduct" for a pharmacist to advertise the prices of prescription drugs. That statute, claimed a Virginia consumer group, violated the consumers' right to receive information on the price of drugs...
Died. Colonel Glover S. Johns Jr., 64, commanding officer of the U.S. troops who liberated Saint-L6 after six long weeks of desperate fighting following their D-day landing at Omaha Beach; of a heart attack; in Austin, Texas. A Virginia Military Institute graduate, Colonel Johns wrote The Clay Pigeons of Saint-Lõ, which was an account of his World War II experiences. Perhaps his best-known military exploit came at the beginning of the Berlin crisis in 1961, when he successfully led a reinforcement convoy into the barricaded city...