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#	Article	Article Summary
1	Foreign banks' finger in the dollar's dike won't be enough to fix it	Professor Fred Abraham explains that overseas banking will be insufficient in stabilizing the U. S. dollar.
2	How do foreign students stack up in American colleges and universities?	Linda Jernigan, of the Office of Foreign Student Affairs, analyzes the performance of foreign students when compared against that of native students.
3	If four-year-olds enter the public schools, they can't be kept behind a desk, says Northern Iowa professor	Professor Gloria Kirkland discusses the Board of Education's plans to include four-year-olds in school curriculums. The Price Laboratory School's experimental pre-kindergarten programs of the 1960s is used as a model for the new curriculum.
4	Just hearing 'wind-chill factor' is enough to chill an Iowan's spine	Shirley Cropper explains the origin and measurement of wind-chill factor.
5	Northern Iowa 'master' program takes outdated teachers back to school	Professors Glenn Nelson and Roy Unruh invite two-hundred Iowan elementary school teachers to the "Math and Science Teaching-Education Revitalization" program to reinforce their teaching abilities in science and mathematics.
6	Northern Iowa accounting s students providing free tax assistance	Over one-hundred accounting majors assist lower-income families in filing their taxes, as supervised by Professor Gaylon Halverson.
7	University of Northern Iowa names new vice president for development	Professor Joseph Mitchell is named vice president for development by the Board of Regents. Mitchell's responsibilities include planning, implementing, and evaluating programs to enhance alumni, corporate, and community support.