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...necessity, but officials are applying increasingly more pressure on college athletes once they get to school. The best example is the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Rule 48, which will require would-be freshman athletes to score at least 700 on their SATs and successfully complete a specifies array of pre-college courses. AT the heart of the issue is the colleges' aim--which is fair--to guard against erosion of academic standards...
...railway track and alpine tunnel is mined and ready to blow up whenever needed. The army is scheduled to go into full mobilization in 48 hours. In practice, it rarely taker half that long. And, needless to add, the Swiss have prepared for nuclear attack with the most complete array of shelters and civil defense plans in the world...
...text with photograms, tables, and graphs which make it difficult to digest." A five-volume History of Bitic Literature is conveniently boiled down to prefaces from the first and second editions. They trace the evolution of the computer from a programmed and hence "unthinking" machine into a dazzling array of autonomous intelligences, producing unbidden works of literature, "bitic texts which in varying degrees are unintelligible to humans...
...array of U.S. laws and regulations seems confusing, the legal wilderness abroad is totally bewildering. A group of West European justice ministers meeting in Strasbourg tried to work out some international policies on reproduction technology, but they gave up in despair. In Germany, where there are no laws either permitting or forbidding surrogate motherhood, a man in Bad Oeynhausen was fined $1,750 for advertising for a woman willing to gestate an embryo and then give the child up for adoption to a childless couple. Before he could find such a woman, he was fined because the law forbids...
Neither current law nor current custom supports such an array of rights, however. On the contrary, a pregnant woman's right of decision is generally considered paramount, at least during the first three months. Even so, says Professor Maurice Mahoney of Yale's medical school, every embryo deserves a certain respect. "I see it as an individual human being," he says, "not with the same claims and rights as a newborn baby, but at least as an individual who calls upon me for some kind of protectiveness...