Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...economics concentrator from Bethesda, Md., was given the award yesterday at the Radcliffe Garden Party for senior women in Radcliffe Yard. Wu will receive a monetary prize and a special Latin diploma to recognize her outstanding academic achievement and community service...
Bromery also said part of the plan includes a commitment by college presidents to hold the line on special administrative fees that have been assessed to cope with budget shortfalls. The fees range up to $974 at UMass-Amherst...
...having decided to do an adoption, assume a certain risk," says Professor William Winslade of the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston. "If it is an incredibly difficult burden, it seems unfair not to give parents, who have provided the benefit to society by making the adoption, some special help. But I don't think the burden should be totally given back to the state either. Parents adopt because they want the joys -- and the sorrows -- of having children...
About 2% of all adoptions in the U.S. fail. But for older children and children with special needs, the numbers are far higher. For children older than two, 10% of the adoptions are dissolved. For ages twelve to 17, the rate shoots up to around 24%. This poses a special problem, since healthy adoptable babies are increasingly scarce owing to the fact that more single women now opt to have abortions or to keep their infants. More families are therefore adopting older or handicapped children. This seems to be a main cause of the growing return-to-sender phenomenon...
Take the Harlem School for the Arts, a 25-year-old institution that provides arts education to about 1,300 students a year, most of them black, Hispanic and Asian. It holds a $50,000 NEA grant to fund a special masters voice class for budding opera singers. This grant is just a fraction of its $1.7 million annual budget, but Joyce Perry, development director, feels "very disturbed" about the assault on the endowment: "Community institutions like ours depend on the NEA. We're established now and can get other funds, but there are other grass-roots organizations just starting...