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...dress code forbidding hats and any gangish or come-on clothing. Students who got to school late or cut class could expect latrine or graffiti-scrubbing duty. Says Clark: "Discipline is the ultimate tenet of education. Discipline establishes the format, the environment for academic achievement to occur...
These same faculty members, remember, are the people who would have to vote to change the calendar for that change to occur. They would have to be super-humanly altruistic to do so. And they can tell themselves, if their consciences nag, that perhaps in a larger sense changing the system would be wrong: great teachers, not students, are what Harvard should work hardest to attract and the current academic calendar, although it is unfair to students. acts as an unbelievable perk for current and future faculty members, thus benefitting students in the long...
...health-care worker from Kalamazoo, Mich., was hoping to visit relatives. "I have not seen my mother since 1975," she says, recalling a hasty departure with her husband and two children the week before Saigon's collapse. Tearful reunions outside the terminal at Tan Son Nhut now occur regularly, although many returning Vietnamese are nervous about how they will be received. Manila-based Tour Operator Johnathan Nguyen, a naturalized American, offers reassurances. "Overseas Vietnamese, welcome back," he exclaims at a briefing session during a stopover in the Philippines. "You will be treated like a king with your dollars...
These changes occur in synchrony with the environment, primed, as it were, by the unrelentingly constant rhythms of the natural and academic calenders. The shortest day of the year, December 21, for example, marks not only a collapse in the skin's production of life-sustaining vitamin D, but also the second day of Winter Break, when, as tradition holds, Reading Period guilt first manifests itself...
Preventive veterinary medicine is burgeoning. Animal doctors now routinely use X rays and other imaging techniques to detect nearly invisible hairline cracks in horses' legs before fractures occur. For tendon and ligament injuries, says University of Pennsylvania Veterinarian Virginia Reef, "diagnostic ultrasound has been a big boon in racing and horse-show circles." Racing has become such big business that young horses increasingly compete regularly when they are only two years old, before their bodies are fully mature. Equine Specialist Howard Seeherman of Tufts uses the treadmill % to condition yearlings in order to reduce injuries and improve performance. Says...