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...service projects, so far these initiatives have failed. Last year a representative of Phillips Brooks House, the community service organization, visited a meeting of the council and persuaded the group that they would only be duplicating PBH's efforts, so the council is now trying to form a graduate chapter of the public service organization...
Council members say that setting up a graduate chapter of PBH would instill camaraderie among the different schools as well as allow students of different graduate schools apply their expertise in public service work. They add it would also help dispel the stereotype that some of the graduate schools churn out "money-hungry materialists...
...council member in charge of coordinating the PBH project says it is not progressing as quickly as planned, and that no definite date has been set for the chapter's formation. Later this month, in an informal arrangement, graduate students will cook meals for and help staff Rosie's Place, a local homeless center...
...Sandinistas and the contras sat down this week for their first face-to-face meeting at Sapoa, Nicaragua, they added another chapter to the book of American failures in Central America. Even if "neither side seeks a military victory over the other," as rebel negotiator Alfredo Cesar said after Monday's talk, the truth of the matter is that a diplomatic peace is also far from the minds of both sides...
...most misleading of the authors' assertions, however, fall in the chapter titled "Can You Catch AIDS from a Toilet Seat?" They accurately report that the risk of infection from a source other than sex, contaminated needles, blood or the womb is practically nil. But they proceed to describe in vivid detail how it might be "theoretically possible" to contract AIDS from, among other things, contact lenses, a salad in a restaurant or instruments in a doctor's office. The farfetched examples are so memorable that the caveats are quickly forgotten. Worse, the therapists call for mandatory AIDS tests...