Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...started the program one-and-a-half years ago in order to give back to the community and to help people who don't get help," Hourhian said. "I saw people getting let out of institutions because of cutbacks and saw how wasteful throwing away food from [the Divinity School cateteria] was, so I decided to start the kitchen...
Today, about fifteen students from the Business and Divinity Schools and the College volunteer to help run the soup kitchen each week. Hourhian emphasized that the program would not be the same without the Harvard students, whom she calls the "main-stay" of her program...
...Churches couldn't agree on whether or not to sponsor such a program," she said. "Their congregations were concerned with the security problem involved with having homeless people served in a soup kitchen...
...study of four public cholesterol-screening programs, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers found that only one produced accurate results consistently. The worst program was off the mark in almost 25% of the tests. A recent survey by the Department of Health and Human Services of such mass operations found that the "technicians" conducting the tests often had little or no training. More than half the people screened at 71 sites had their fingers squeezed, or "milked," to draw blood. This is known to dilute the blood with other fluids and produce an artificially...
Pamyat, a hodgepodge of rabid Russian nationalist groups, some operating in secret, spins out tales of a historic Jewish-Masonic conspiracy against Russia. The organization looks for Masonic symbols everywhere, even in the five-pointed red stars atop Kremlin towers. A "de-Zionization" program, attributed to Pamyat, urges that Jews and their relations not be allowed to acquire degrees, join the Communist Party or hold elective office until their numbers in the ruling elite are brought into proportional balance with the population at large...