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...wait-and-see attitude may have been prompted by biologists' charged that Trivers's work-and that of other sociobiologists, including E.O. Wilson, professor of Zoology and author of the controversila text "Sociobiology"-is unscientific or untestable...
...first class next year, attracts applicants because of its apprenticeship program in public-interest law. Last year 60% of its first-year students passed the baby bar exam. Getting a job, however, is another matter. In 1975 there were 34,000 law school graduates round the country looking for work-and only 26,000 jobs...
Minnesota Shuttle. In the sprawling Minneapolis-St. Paul area, two major companies that are not conveniently served by mass transit have found a way to spare their employees the high cost of driving to work-and save the nation some gasoline. The firms have started their own bus services, using twelve-passenger minivans that usually go right to each worker's doorstep. General Mills, Inc. has bought 13 of the vans carrying some 150 workers daily, while 3M Co. has 65 vans that haul some 700 people. Regular workers moonlight as part-time chauffeurs; they get free rides collect...
...election victory was also the result of Mrs. Gandhi's hard work-and her firm control of the party machinery. She screened lists of party candidates and removed the names of those whose loyalty she was unsure of; through access to confidential dossiers of the Central Bureau of Investigation she was able to keep tab on leading politicians. During the campaign she flew an estimated 55,000 miles across India, focusing her attacks on the conservative Opposition Congress and Hindu right-wing Jana Sangh parties...
...Tobin (the only American nun to attend Vatican II), the Loretto community became the prototype for renewal in American sisterhoods. The Loretto nuns were among the first in the U.S. to modernize their convent schedule and dress-the habit is often exchanged for the civilian garb appropriate to their work-and branch out into professions other than the teaching, nursing or running of orphanages and old-age homes usually associated with sisters. In 1965, a Loretto nun became a full-time executive in the Job Corps. Today some members counsel conscientious objectors and drug addicts, and one advises the Denver...