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Unfortunately, the flaws in this argument are manifold: the ideal of universal educational opportunity has never been achieved, and many gains during the 1970s were cut back by the Reagan administration. Since 1980, costs for public and private colleges have risen by 40 percent after inflation, while federal student aid...

Author: By Jonathan Miller, | Title: Giving Back to Your Country | 4/15/1989 | See Source »

THERE are, however, ways in which the government can help encourage student particpation across the social spectrum. Additionally, current initiatives on Capitol Hill, such as President Bush's YES program and a bill proposed by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), offer financial support for part-time voluntary service programs. Moreover...

Author: By Jonathan Miller, | Title: Giving Back to Your Country | 4/15/1989 | See Source »

Arboretum director Robert E. Cook '68, named last December, says one of his top priorities will be an emphasis on early science education "and the role we might play reaching out to schools."

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Arnold Arboretum Follows Teaching Path | 4/13/1989 | See Source »

While the scope of the arboretum's collection has grown considerably since its emphasis on native New England plants in its early days, it still retains the layout conceived by its designer, Frederick Law Olmsted. Charles Sprague Sargent, the arboretum's first director, conducted most of the field work himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walking With Buzzy | 4/13/1989 | See Source »

Soviet psychiatry began to take shape in the 1920s and drew especially on the work of physiologist Ivan Pavlov (whose experiments on conditioning, particularly with dogs, gave the term Pavlovian response to the English language). His followers largely rejected the work of Sigmund Freud and other Western theorists and looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Profession Under Stress | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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