Table of Contents
MAY 1991 VOL. 83 NO. 8
Dr. Wennberg's Uncertainty Principle A Dartmouth researcher proposes radical surgery on health care, by Susan Dentzer '77 11
Book Buddies Students attack illiteracy with an innovative weapon, by Nancy Millichap Davies 28
The Blue Zoo What was it about an off-campus house that made it so—different? By Rob Eshman '82 32
LETTERS • 4
DR. WHEELOCK'S JOURNAL • 6
ON THE HILL • 8
PRESIDENTIAL RANGE • 13
SYLLABUS • 14
CLASS NOTES • 42
OBITUARIES 76
DARTMOUTH UNDYING • 80
Cover: Jack Wennberg once put an entire state's health-care system under a statistical microscope. What he found was as dramatic as anything discovered in a laboratory. The portrait is by Photo Editor Jon Gilbert Fox.
Yakking is just one of the pastimes pursued by the graduates of one of Dartmouth's stranger off-campus houses, the Blue Zoo.
