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Revelle said, "We must ask ourselves the age-old question, 'Will there be enough food...
...that age-old facility Harvard had some memorable wins including a stellar performance by high jumper Mel Embree--6'10", a new meet record, and an equally sidereal effort by Blayne Heckel in the pole vault. Heckel and teammate Don Berg combined for first and second slots in the vaulting competition...
Perhaps Amenhotep was one of the first student radicals. At any rate, he succeeded to the throne at about 16 and set out to revolutionize the age-old system of multiple deities, substituting a single god, Aten, symbolized by the sun. In fact, he changed his own name to Akhenaten, meaning Useful to Aten. Women's Lib would have loved him: he gave equal billing, in bas-relief and statuary, to his Queen, Nefertiti. She was portrayed in the sleek drapery she might actually have worn, one shoulder bare, a clasp under her right breast. In dark red quartz...
...technophile (friend of medicine) and an anthropophile (friend of man). We seek an answer to the contradicitions in the physician's oath: Is the doctor foresworn primarily to prolong life or to curtail suffering? Is he bound primarily to a legal code or his own conscience? Furthermore, the sacred age-old injunctions to confidentiality and non-criticism inside the medical profession are not always the most pragmatic or desirable self-regulations. Is not the exorbitant cost of medical care a contradiction of the physician's supposed heart-felt concern for the ailing? Is good health merely an expensive commodity...
...age-old injunction to solidarity within the medical profession, and the physician's privilege of expecting no criticism from his peers must be discarded. And the Medical School should feel compelled to organize that effort...