Word: processing
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This is no country for old men, so John Glenn will be leaving it in October--will quit the entire planet and head out for a realm where age doesn't count. Oddly, it was the realization that young people go through the process of aging in space--cardiovascular shifts, immune-system changes, loss of muscle and of bone density--that gave Glenn his long-sought means of getting back to the extra-world that made him. What was a usable scientific rationale for him became a new way to understand space for others. If the young temporarily grow...
...offers and thereby prevent bidding wars over the best and brightest students. Then in the early '90s, the U.S. Justice Department argued that the Overlap Group was essentially engaging in price fixing and forced an end to the program. Now only the government monitors need, through its FAFSA process, and, though the colleges claim their policy is not to award scholarships purely on merit, there is a lot of juggling around the fringes of that policy...
...last year, and she felt her family couldn't afford to contribute as much as Yale expected. So she let Yale know. She wrote the financial-aid office and asked that the amount be adjusted based on the award from Stanford. "Since my father is in the process of opening his own business," she argued, "I fear that paying for my college education will drain our family's financial resources and jeopardize this chance he has to fulfill his lifelong dream." As a result, she got an additional $4,000 offer from Yale, lowering her parents' contribution...
Radcliffe observers say all this could represent merely a summer slow down or a more substantial snag in the negotiation process. Whichever, no major changes seem imminent. The official word is that, with so many top people on vacation, it is difficult to make progress...
Alumnae gathering at Radcliffe on June 6, theday after Commencement, voiced disapproval of theway the planning process is being handled. "Therewas a kind of rump revolt," said Adeline Naiman'46, a member of the Radcliffe Club of Boston.Wilson wrote in bold faced letters in a June 18letter to alumnae that "no hasty or precipitousactions will occur...