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...have also enrolled 90 of the 317 students who participated in the Research Science Institute of the Center for Excellence in Education in McLean, Virginia. Of this year's six National Advanced Placement Scholars, four chose Harvard and Radcliffe. Harvard undergraduates have won the Putnam Mathematics Competition for the fifth straight year. Harvard and Radcliffe students this year received 17 Rotary Scholarships; five Fulbright Scholarships; four Marshall Scholarships; and three Rhodes Scholarships. Harder to quantify is the remarkable rate of admission to first-rate graduate and professional schools achieved by Harvard and Radcliffe students...
...religious protests were led by Sheik Abdul Aziz ibn Baz, chief of the Presidency of Islamic Research, Ruling, Call and Guidance, an organization that rules on questions of dogma. Ibn Baz earned a certain notoriety in the 1960s by insisting that the sun revolved around the earth. He subsequently modified that view after a Saudi astronaut flew in a space shuttle and broadcast back TV images providing evidence to the contrary...
...contested high-tech fields. Hundreds of companies, from IBM to Germany's Daimler-Benz to Japan's Sony, are investing heavily to come up with the next breakthroughs. Advanced-material sales, which will top $2 billion this year, are expected to reach $20 billion by the year 2000 as research efforts of the past decade start paying big dividends in the form of new products...
...industrial and consumer applications. In addition, they have been avidly buying materials technology from abroad. In the past four years, some of Japan's leading producers, such as Kyocera and Tokuyama, have acquired four American firms, including AVX, a New York City manufacturer of specialized ceramics, and Materials Research, an Orangeburg, N.Y., company that makes high-purity metals...
...sign that an autoimmune attack has begun is the appearance in the bloodstream of antibodies to the pancreatic cells and, later, to insulin itself. For nine years a Joslin Center research team led by immunologist Dr. George Eisenbarth has been tracking the appearance of these antibodies in 10,000 close relatives of Type I diabetics. It is now possible for the Joslin team to predict which otherwise symptomless relatives are likely to develop the disease in three years' time. Last May the Joslin and two other medical centers launched a program to treat identified potential diabetics with an antirejection drug...