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...some for a lack of mission is universally seen as the foremost school of its kind. Bok is also credited with originating the "New Pathways" program at the Medical School, a revolutionary medical curriculum that emphasizes personal skills. He is also widely regarded for shaping the so-called case method of teaching at the Business School...
Even as public interest in ethical issues waxes and wanes, Harvard faces the difficult task of applying the models developed in the professional schools and the College into a comprehensive method for teaching ethics. The University-wide program headed by Thompson may accomplish that task, but for now Harvard will have to continue to struggle with the role of ethics in a university education...
While Thompson said he would like to see the Business School hire theologians and philosophers to teach ethics courses in the MBA program, Harvard is committed to its case study method of teaching business, which would require an ethicist to have a strong foundation in business as well...
...staff of the Center for Research in Personality. The most vociferous critics to psilocybin research believe that it is not conducted for scientific purposes, and that the experimenters are interested in experience rather than reporting their results. A major element of the defense of research contends that scientific method and reportable results are the goal of the research. But a second element of the defense claims that experience is a legitimate goal of inquiry, and that psilocybin should be used in order to heighten perception so that the experimenters may gain new insight into personality by perceiving behavior more clearly...
Home-equity loans are doing a land-office business, expected to double to $70 billion this year (see chart). They are thus gaining rapidly on another method of borrowing against the American home, standard second mortgages, which are likely to be worth $130 billion in 1987. The conventional second mortgage tends to be a short-term, fixed-payment plan for a set amount, based on the value of a home that remains after deducting its first mortgage. But home-equity loans are different: they allow owners to put up their homes as collateral to open variable-rate, revolving-credit accounts...