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...Smithsonian article touched on a perpetual bane for its students: Harvard loneliness...
...economic bane of the 1970s returned to haunt the late 1980s? For several years, inflation has seemed like a vanquished problem of another era. Price increases during the past half-decade have been remarkably small, never more than 5% annually. Vigilant economists have spotted warning signs from time to time but never any present danger. Now, however, comes fresh evidence that inflation may be making a comeback at a time when it could play havoc with the aging economic expansion and the new Administration. A serious rise in prices would force the Federal Reserve to fight back by pushing interest...
...names of two well respected women academics--Mary Jo Bane and Alice M. Rivlin--also continue to float around the school as top contenders for the post. Some observers say increased pressure on the University to improve its affirmative action record makes the possibility of a woman dean more likely than in the past...
Until recently, the drugs were considered mainly the bane of competitive sports and body building. But the alarming fact is that steroids, which are synthetic male hormones, are increasingly being abused by teenage boys for cosmetic reasons. A report last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that 6.6% of male high school seniors -- and perhaps as many as 500,000 adolescents nationwide -- have used steroids. Nearly a third of the students surveyed took the drugs to acquire that brawny look. Declares "Ian," a 5-ft. 6-in., 115-lb. 17-year-old from Boston...
Selected by a panel of experts in state and local government, the winners each earned $100,000 prizes from the Ford Foundation. "These innovators represent a new activism in government, a willingness to grapple with some of society's toughest problems," Professor of Public Policy Mary Jo Bane wrote in a press release. Bane heads the program that administers Innovations in State and Local Government Awards...