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...vatican hazardous to your health? That's what Italy's Environment Minister Willer Bordon is alleging, and the Roman Catholic Church is not pleased. The dispute, which broke out in early March, centers on allegedly excessive levels of electromagnetic radiation produced by Vatican Radio's powerful transmitters. The Vatican claims that as a sovereign state under a 1929 treaty it is not subject to Italian prosecutors. Bordon says that unless emissions are reduced by the end of this week, he will order electricity suppliers to cut off the station's power...
Take William S. Willer, 21, of Newton, who works at Boston Five Savings Bank, and attends the Extention School in hopes of earning a bachelor degree in Economics...
...should take me a year and a half to get the credits," Willer says. "After that, I'd like to go to business school full time. Many schools look favorably on people who work and attend school at the same time...
...students like Willer, who are seeking degrees, constitute the minority, says Michael Shinagel, dean of the University's education outreach program. Less than 2000 out of the more than 250,000 who have taken Extension courses have actually earned college degrees, the school's dean says. "That comes out to less than one percent...
...Willer says he chose this school because an undergraduate friend recommended it. He also claims that Harvard's prices are up to one-third less for similar courses offered at Boston College...