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...Professor Peter N. Kiang '80 of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, who also spoke at the forum, said that many of the criteria used to evaluate the success of Asian-Americans are misleading. Supposedly objective measures of success, such as median family income, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and grades can give a mistaken impression of the true position of Asians, he said...
...victory against Franklin & Marshall, which Piltch said would be a "good test of how good we can be," is an improvement upon last week's 9-0 shutout against Navy because the Diplomats are traditionally considered a more competitive team. And the Crimson triumph is an improvement upon last year's F&M match, which Harvard...
Next week, the Harvard track squads will face a tough test in cross-city rival Northeastern University when the Crimson hosts the annual Harvard Invitational Saturday...
...vitro fertilization, in which eggs are extracted from a woman's ovaries, fertilized in a glass dish, then implanted in the donor's womb. Next week a House subcommittee will release a report charging that the Department of Health and Human Services has shied away from funding research on "test-tube fertilization" because of pressure from right-to-life groups. As a consequence, the discovery of new techniques to make the procedure more reliable and lower its cost (currently $6,000 for each attempted fertilization) must depend on uncertain private financing...
...that are immensely popular on Capitol Hill. Conspicuously absent from the lists were such big-ticket items as the Navy's Seawolf attack submarine, the Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter and the Army's LHX attack helicopter. The Navy flouted the spirit of Malta further by scheduling a test of its Trident II submarine-based ballistic missile for Dec. 1 -- the day before the summit begins. The Navy's insensitivity to diplomatic timing so worried the Joint Chiefs of Staff that they are contemplating postponing the test...