Fewer medical students choose psychiatry study
Editorial notes from The Wall Street Journal highlight a shift in career interests among medical students. The share pursuing psychiatry dropped from 12 percent in 1968 to 4 percent now, per an American Psychiatric Association survey. Possible explanations include improved national mental health, less business activity, or a view of the nation as a hopeless case.
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Wall Street Journal
American Psychiatric Association
Always Elvis wine hits market in twenty states
An Italian entrepreneur sells Always Elvis wine with a color Elvis photo label. The wine is marketed in about 20 states and described as tasting like a potato chip, prompting mixed feelings among Elvis fans. The biting aside hints at a negative edge to the product.
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Elvis Presley
Italy
Style is again in style in Uganda after Amin
Uganda moves toward normalcy after Idi Amin. Parliament restores wigs miniskirts and split skirts to legal attire. The change aims to boost social variety and perhaps stimulate a sluggish economy through a lighter cultural climate.
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Uganda
Idi Amin
Take a Taxi on Us Helps Employees After Tragedy
After a fatal auto accident three holiday seasons ago, Pickwick International and Fingerhut Corp. launch cab fare reimbursement for their 10,000 employees. The program encourages workers to sponsor taxi rides for colleagues who should not drive, with company reimbursement guaranteed to be provided.
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Pickwick International, Inc
Fingerhut Corp
Minnesota
Dave
Americans recall 1970s grip erosion and mixed prosperity
AP analysis notes Americans felt erosion of buying power despite growth in jobs wages and wealth. Inflation debt and rising costs undermined confidence while surveys showed heavy spending as survival. Skepticism persisted though many overlooked the second half of a long economic expansion. Professor Angus Campbell studied these attitudes.
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John Cunniff
New York
America
Angus Campbell
University of Michigan
The World Almanack Quiz and Historical Facts Summary
The text lists a set of quiz questions about American banking leaders meat consumption and Columbus voyages. It then references analyses noting a decline in reported happiness among Americans in the late 1960s and early 1970s, especially among youth, with the elderly growing more content. It cites Campbell and explains economic pressures on young buyers, and recalls Captain James Cook using onions to combat scurvy on 18th century voyages.
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Campbell
James Cook
Pacific
Today in History January 4 1980 highlights
On January 4 1790 George Washington delivered the first state of the nation address. Notable dates include Isaac Newton born 1642, Palestine partition plan delayed in 1938, Seoul captured in 1951, Pakistan India talks in 1972, Carter Sadat Aswan meeting in 1978, and a 1980 Suez aviation clash report. Birthdays list Jane Wyman 66 and William Colby 60.
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Associated Press
George Washington
Isaac Newton
Palestine
Seoul
Korea
Pakistan
India
East Pakistan
Bangladesh
Carter
Egypt
Sadat
Aswan
Israel
Suez Canal
Gerald Ford
CIA
Britain
Callaghan
France
Giscard D'Estaing
West Germany
Schmidt
Caribbean
Guadeloupe
Jane Wyman
William Colby
Canada election deja vu in Trudeau Clark clash resurfaces
The piece reviews a revived Liberal tide under Pierre Trudeau facing Joe Clark leading a Western coalition. It notes Western energy interests, Ontario and Quebec votes, and the enduring French English split. Weather in February could swing the outcome as voters face a likely minority parliament amid shifting Western power.
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Canada
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joe Clark
Far West
Trudeau
West East
Near-Orplian
Maritime
Clark
Joe Who
Dynamic
America
Alberta
Ontario
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Quebec
Liberals
Iran hostage crisis shows up to date stalemate
Washington dispatch notes a stagnant pattern in U S Iranian talks with militants in Tehran and bureaucrats in Foggy Bottom clashing over contact rules as captors demand the shah return. A later report details postal workers' deadly hazards, citing a missing safety switch and a fatal conveyor accident at a New York center.
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Washington
U.S
Tehran
State Department
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Carter
George Hansen
R-Ida
Yassir Arafat
Hansen
Merton Bland
Panama
Ayatollah Khomeini
Iran
Post Office
Vicki Warren
New York Bulk and Foreign Mail Center
Michael McDermott
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