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...always say 'I want to major in this--I want this to be the central focus of my studies at Harvard,'" Kates says. But the Committee on Women's Studies has no power to grant degrees or authorize joint majors. And because offerings in women's studies are "so random, scattered, and transient," Kates says she still believes that students are better off in the departments...
...Water" and the story of Convict-Celebrity Jack Henry Abbott portray the astonishing range of human character under stress. The man in the Potomac responded to unyielding nature with transcendent heroism. Abbott is accused of reacting to an indifferent society with random viciousness...
Although there is documentation that the rebels too have been responsible for many random shootings, most victims of the violence have apparently died at the hands of security forces, possibly acting under orders from El Salvador's right-wingers who oppose the Duarte government and are against all social reform, especially recent land reform programs...
...approaching his far-out subject, Sabom was determined to be "objective and systematic. Patients were asked standardized questions and did not at first know the purpose of his study. Rather than limiting it to people claiming to have had an NDE, as Moody did, Sabom questioned a random sample of patients who had suffered near fatal medical crises, defined as any unconscious bodily state that "would be expected to result in irreversible biological death in the majority of instances." Three-quarters had been in cardiac arrest. A few had already been given up for dead. One soldier, for instance...
Sabom found that 40% of his random sample had vivid memories of their brush with death. A third had what he calls purely "autoscopic" experiences, in which they remember floating at ceiling height above the operating table (or battlefield) and looking down on their own lifeless bodies. About half had "transcendental" experiences, in which they recall traveling through a dark tunnel toward a bright light. Some, like Owen Thomas, encountered other figures or entered unearthly landscapes like those painted by Hieronymus Bosch. Several patients reported both autoscopic and transcendental elements...