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...says Fisher, there is a wider divergence of backgrounds, hometowns, and parental incomes and as one consequence, there is a greater "tolerance of differences," which is what seems to matter the most. It is in such an atmosphere, Fisher says, that a student can build up the "guts" to do something independent or risky...
...Deer Island, like Fenway Park, creates special problems, giving a slight advantage to the home team. It is only a foot wider on each side than the width of the basketball court itself, and the floor is of slick concrete. During the game players frequently smacked into the wall or bruised their knuckles trying to save the ball from going out of bounds...
...Radcliffe Union of Students will ask the Faculty in the near future to offer a wider variety of courses in women's studies and to include more material on women in other courses, an RUS spokesman said yesterday...
Body Wig. The tradition of Things Seen has achieved less critical success but even wider popularity. The main themes of the genre were laid down in its first masterpiece, Frankenstein. Written in 1816-17 by Mary Shelley, the 19-year-old wife of the poet, the novel is a brilliant philosophical thriller about the arrogance of science and the revenge of nature. Seventy years later, in 1886, the point of the Frankenstein story was sharpened by Robert Louis Stevenson in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By combining the scientist and the monster in the same personality...
...charged that the A.M.A's code of ethics, by forbidding advertising, has stifled competition between doctors and thus violates antitrust laws. The case highlighted a sudden new interest by the five-member commission in medicine and advertising: in other late-December actions, the FTC moved to bring about wider advertising of low-priced eyeglasses and to force Warner-Lambert Co. to tell consumers that Listerine mouthwash does not prevent colds or sore throats...