Word: developments
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Clifford L. Alexander '55, who was appointed by the Corporation last month to develop the hiring program and who organized the two contracts, said that to his knowledge this is the first time minority hiring clauses have appeared in a contract anywhere in the nation...
There are, however, encouraging signs of progress on some reservations. The Lummi tribe of Washington State, a sea-oriented people along Puget Sound, are using federal funds and considerable hard labor to develop the most advanced aquafarm in the U.S. They control the spawning and cultivating of oysters, the breeding of hybrid steelhead-rainbow trout and the harvesting of algae, used in making toothpaste, ice cream and pudding. It may net $1,000 an acre for the Indians, compared with at most $40 an acre in land farming...
...money can ever compensate a child for having been born without arms, without legs, or with invisible and irremediable defects in his heart. But money can at least ease the incredibly difficult and costly task of training such a child to develop fully the use of his limited powers. Last week the German manufacturers of thalidomide, the most disastrous drug in medical history, recognized that fact. As compensation to the parents of all the thalidomide-deformed children surviving in West Germany, they offered a lump-sum settlement totaling 100 million marks ($27.3 million...
...beagle reaction justify the Food and Drug Administration recommendation that testing of chlormadinone be suspended, and the dutiful decision by Syntex to recall the contraceptive? Researchers engaged in chlormadinone test programs point out that no one knows whether beagle bitches are more likely than other animals to develop abnormal and possibly precancerous nodules under heavy stimulation by hormones. (It is known, on the other hand, that monkeys given similar doses did not develop the lumps.) Furthermore, even the three pathologists who examined the "breast tissue" from these beagles could not agree completely about which samples were benign and which might...
Edsall and Kafatos worked with them to develop a course proposal, which was submitted to the Committee on General Education. The course was originally planned to cover all of the sciences, but the organizers later decided to focus solely on biology...