Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups who are recommending changes in medical-school education are missing a vital point [May 23]. Instead of changing the curriculum, institutions should concentrate on admitting students with a liberal arts education. If it becomes known that the schools are as eager to accept well-qualified humanities majors as they are to accept those who have concentrated on science, the medical schools will receive applicants with more diverse backgrounds. Only then will we get better educated and more humane doctors...
...Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, NASA provided a wide cuplike attachment that fits over the crotch. A curtain is being added to give Ride some privacy, though she did not ask for it. Notes Astronaut Mary Cleave, an environmental engineer: "Guys don't like to perform vital functions in front of everybody either...
Congratulations from the entire Harvard community are due the hardworking agents of the Senior Class Gift. Their efforts proved once again how vital senior and alumni gifts are in maintaining and improving Harvard as a center of learning and a forum for debate. All aspects of undergraduate life, from the libraries and the Houses to The Crimson and the Lampoon, benefit directly from true giving...
Studies of former Viet Nam prisoner; of war have revealed that communication with fellow captives, sometimes involving complex tapping codes, was a vital factor in their survival. In a book to be published this fall, one former P.O.W. relates that even while he was being beaten by his captors, he could hear other prisoners tapping out the supportive message "God bless you, Jim Stockdale...
...Vital Interests...