Word: problems
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Pulse determines therapy. Western diagnoses such as stomach ulcers or colds have no translation into acupuncture treatment. A patient does not have a histological problem, but a problem in an imbalance meridien...
...city has overcome many of the problems that plaued its development. The splits and divisions between neighborhoods have healed at least a little from the day when the snooty residents of Old Cambridge asked that they be officially separated from East Cambridge and Cambridgeport. Corruption, patronage and inefficiency, at times the hallmark of city government, have given way to an administration more professional and more competent. There are signs of a rosy economic future filled with jobs and tax dollars for a city that was hit hard by the southward industrial exodus. Tenants, once strained by rising rents, are protected...
...Swedish Internation Development Agency (equivalent to USAID) has published a booklet about genital mutilation and a group of women arranged a traveling exhibition with "explicit photographic materials." Female circumcision is considered a major health problem by an enlightened opinion who wants to give medical aid to Africa. Therefore, the Somalian delegate to the UN Conference for Women has made a film showing clitoridectomy and infibulation and SIDA has paid for copies. It was also shown at All Womens' House in Stockholm. I hope that this film will be shown at Harvard in spite of Dr. Counter's ridiculous protests...
Another Portuguese custom, one often misunderstood by Americans, is family solidarity. Children are often expected to drop out of high school to help support the family; every ablebodied member is supposed to help bring in the money. This problem can be especially acute for Portuguese immigrants: they need education to get good jobs, but they need money in the meantime...
PINPOINTING the problem spots in each Core area and developing course ideas may require some subcommittees to hold marathon brainstorming sessions. They should also send a questionnaire to students--especially freshmen and sophomores--asking what they would like to see added to the Core. This is not to imply that the subcommittees--which each include two students--would be incapable of doing the job themselves. But suggestions from students who must select from the Core offerings could evolve into workable course ideas...