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...HEALTH-CARE PROFESSIONAL WORKing with our senior population, I find Ronald Reagan's admission of his developing confusion from Alzheimer's disease an extremely admirable act ((Health, Nov. 14)). In a society where we worship youth and strength, Reagan again has shown what true courage is by admitting to the frailties of aging. I hope that we begin to accept and cope with the realities of our aged with the grace and candor of our former President. Children may be the future of our country, but old age is our future...
...Memorial Church here at Harvard is technically a congregation and nothing more," Sperry wrote. "The health and strength of our present system, as well as its effectiveness, lie in the genuinely interdenominational character of our public worship...
Today, church administrators say they try to offer an interdenominational place of worship and still maintain a Protestant character...
...heightened awareness of the physical world and a messianic tendency to preach." The author emerges as a different sort of evangelist than one might imagine. In an excerpt from one of his early poems, the virginal schoolmaster addresses his own sadly neglected member: "Thou proud, curved beauty Would worship these, letting my buttocks prance...
...they are being pressured to establish peer-review panels staffed by scientific experts to gauge the merit of competing proposals. Automatic promotions, still typical at many academic institutions, are also coming under attack, and some brave souls have even mounted an assault on the Confucian ethos -- particularly its stultifying worship of professors and its reluctance to question authority. Wen Chang, a young researcher at Academia Sinica, politely but firmly objects to being addressed as Teacher Chang. "I tell students that there is no authority in science," she says. "Everything can be overthrown the very next...