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...increase in mandatory courses, especially the addition of four months of "in hospital" clerkships. Other changes included the addition of an optional full-year genetics course, the switching of a pharmacology course taken by most students from the second year to the first, and the elimination of a four-month concentration requirement for fourth-year students. Despite student objections to those changes, several faculty members said this week they wish the reforms had gone further...
Researchers at Harvard used a larger radiation dose (3,000 rads), but the radiation was administered at intervals: three weeks of treatment would be followed by two weeks of rest over a four-month period. While the symptoms were relieved for up to a year, the results were not as successful as those at Stanford, possibly because of the gaps between treatments. Harvard Radiation Therapist James A. Belli, 50, says patients' response depends on how far their disease has advanced. "If the joints have not been structurally altered," says he, "the pain is almost completely eliminated." Side effects were...
After college at Macalester and the University of California at Berkeley, Wallace began his first venture into what might be called minimal publishing: a booklet that summarized hundreds of free pamphlets for farmers. He was seriously wounded during World War I, but instead of loafing during his four-month convalescence, he sharpened his editor's shears, tightening magazine articles. By 1920 he had prepared a sample copy of the Reader's Digest...
PHILADELPHIA--Fancis S. Hackney, a historian and former Tulane University president, took over as president of University of Pennsylvania on February 2, after a controversial four-month selection process that prompted student and faculty protest and a near lawsuit against the University trustees for nominating Hackney in private...
DORMITORY NUMBER six, where we lived during our four-month stay in Leningrad, stands on the right bank of the River Neva almost directly opposite the Winter Palace of the Tsars. In pre-revolutionary times "6" served as a "public house" where public women offered their services to the Tsar's officers. We used to joke that the plumbing probably hadn't been fixed since that time and that when the women left they probably took the toilet seats and hot water with them...