Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...second-story room bleak. When a drug user comes in, drops a dirty needle into a plastic bucket and receives a fresh sterile syringe and needle in exchange, no name is given, no questions are asked. This is the start of the nation's first state- approved program for providing addicts with clean needles in the hope of curtailing the spread of AIDS. Under the two-year pilot project, an addict can swap a used needle for a new one, supplied by the nonprofit Life Foundation, up to five times a day, five days a week...
...program was passed by the state legislature over the objection of opponents who argued that it would only encourage drug abuse. But proponents pointed out that 18% of the 77 new AIDS cases that surfaced in the last half of 1989 were directly or indirectly caused by IV drug use, and as a result the number of infants born HIV positive during that period has jumped sharply. Says Dr. Jeffrey Schouten, president of the Life Foundation: "If we can even prevent one child from being born infected, it's worth it." During the first week, 62 soiled needles were traded...
SOVIET SPACE, Museum of Science, Boston. A behind-the-scenes look at the Soviet space program, including a model of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth, and a "space bicycle" used for travel outside the space station Mir. Through Sept...
...public-administration baby, the Kennedy School of Government, has won for itself a rather welldeserved reputation for being exactly what he warns other university presidents against creating. Its educational program is known as a training school for soulless technocrats. Even worse, its research programs often carry out what is little more than private consulting for corporate donors who are given free rein to set scholars' priorites...
Speaking as one of more than 900 secondary school program students at Harvard this summer, I would like to express my surprise at the disrespect accorded us by other University students. Not only are we often looked upon as over-achieving, obnoxious high-school kids, but we are told we are only here for the summer and are therefore only pseudo-Harvard students. The other day, as I was walking past a tour group in front of the John Harvard statue. I heard the guard proclaim that the students seen around campus "were not real Harvard students" and that they...