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...corrective surgery for hypoplastic heart developed by Dr. William Norwood, chief of cardiac surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Norwood's procedure, which is practiced at only a few U.S. hospitals, involves a rerouting of blood through the heart so that the right ventricle takes over the pumping function normally performed by the left ventricle. Norwood says that of 100 infants he has treated, 40 have survived; the oldest is now four. But, he admits, the procedure "is not a trivial business and if one intends to have serious impact on this disease, numerous alternatives have to be explored...
...beautiful women, however, are serving a quite different function from their predecessors in movies and TV. Unlike most of the movie queens of Hollywood's golden age, or such TV stars of recent vintage as Jaclyn Smith and Suzanne Somers, the current bevy of beauties are not sex symbols so much as role models for their own sex. Many of them are approaching, or have proudly arrived at, middle age, and their fans are mostly admiring women, not ogling men. Dynasty's audience is 58% female, Hotel's 61%. Nearly half the women viewers of both shows...
...stanch this immense intelligence drain. The President has quietly signed a document known as National Security Decision Directive No. 145. It gives overall responsibility for ensuring the security of communications in the Government and the defense industry to the National Security Agency (NSA), the secrecy-shrouded behemoth whose primary function since its founding in 1952 has been the collection and analysis of other nations' communication traffic. Under Reagan's directive, the NSA will search for ways of protecting the integrity of sensitive telecommunications and federal computer information, which increasingly are two interrelated parts of a common technology. Estimated...
...provides a vital function to the nation's advancement of science, but it may be pushing itself too far if it becomes a foundation supporting industry. This is not to say that industry should be left hanging while basic research scoops up all the support. Instead, a new agency to handle the rapidly expanding technology boom is necessary. Moreover, because of the growing importance of technology research, if the NSI hopes to support both basic research and technology, it appears as though basic research may take a back seat...
...university is to lay any claim to station at the frontiers of civilization, then it has an obligation, as part of its public function, to oppose racial discrimination, wherever it occurs. Against its most entrenched form, in South Africa, Harvard must take its most drastic action. Even is divestment will not immediately help South Africans, Harvard can clear its own name of complicity and Harvard can set an example for others. There is no excuse...