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...Philippines became self-sufficient in rice, even Pakistan had a harvest surplus. But soaring oil prices pushed the cost of essential petrochemical fertilizers out of reach of all but the wealthiest countries. Today nearly every country "revolutionized" by the Green Revolution is importing food from the world's half-dozen grain exporters, most notably...
THEY DEDICATED the University's new biochemistry laboratory last week, and all the big science gun showed up. With a half-dozen congratulatory speeches followed by a wine-and-cheese bash, the ceremony was no less than festive. Research assistants clad in white gowns and wide-eyed pre-meds happily crowded into the back of the new building's sparkling lecture hall, competing to see how many Nobel Laureates they could spot. (The winner found four). Closer to the front of the room professors loudly congratulated one another, relieved that after 14 years of waiting, Harvard's Biochemistry Department finally...
Steve Oney is not a college student. His tweed jacket, Knapsack, pullover sweater and predilection for Bartley burgers (he prefers the "Ronnie Reagan burger," two jellybeans included) may make him look like one; he does attend some half-dozen classes and will continue to do so for the rest of the year. But Steve Oney is a 1981-82 Nieman fellow, a self-styled "new journalist," and his mission at Harvard this year is not to pave the way toward professional school but to take courses "that I don't know anything about." There's one other thing: he wants...
...make-up exams; from a shortage of Core courses to growing pains in the Social Studies concentration; from race-related problems to conflicts with Cambridge residents; issues arose that struck at the heart of student and Faculty life. Yet the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences met only a half-dozen times and dealt with only a handful of those issues...
...administrators. It is regrettable, the Ad Board concludes, but there is only one possible outcome: the entire rooming group, including one summa cum laude candidate in Social Studies, will be required to withdraw, eligible, at best, for readmission within a year. After all, they have clearly violated a good half-dozen of the rules in the student handbook: "radios, television sets, phonographs, and other audible equipment shall be adjusted so as not to disturb others...No boisterous music or playing upon drums or other harsh instruments shall be allowed at any time...A student who is guilty of an offense...