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...community connection.”A HOUSE DIVIDEDBut even within the “ins,” the LGBT community seems to be bifurcating between the civil rights activists chiefly concerned with broader world and those who keep their eye trained primarily on Harvard. Before the early 1980s, when gay rights at Harvard gained momentum, a small, all-male, all-white social group called the Gay Students Association (GSA) existed, unrecognized by the College, in relative anonymity because members feared being outed in a climate hostile toward homosexuality. Former GSA president Benjamin H. Schatz ’81 shook...
...Percentage of school systems offering driver's education programs, compared with 90% in the 1980s...
...that the first hypervelocity star was found, but astronomers have believed since the 1980s that these stars might exist. A pair of gravitationally linked stars could wander too close to the black hole that lurks in the galactic core, causing one to be sucked in and the other to be violently flung off into space...
...greatest resistance leaders, responsible for turning the group's military wing into the heavily armed crack fighting force it is today. In the West, Mughniyah was better known for his alleged association with the large-scale suicide bomb attacks and kidnappings of foreigners in 1980s Beirut. More recently, Mughniyah reportedly assisted militant groups in the Palestinian territories and in Iraq, ensuring that the impact of his death reverberates far beyond Lebanon's borders. Last week, the Kuwaiti embassy in Beirut was evacuated following an anonymous telephone threat to rocket the building. The threat came amid an uproar in Kuwait when...
...analysts say that the problems date back years, and could take several more years to fix. When oil prices were low during the 1980s and 1990s, big oil companies and governments decided it was not worth investing in new oil fields or in building thousands more oil refineries - projects that cost billions of dollars and can take about seven years of work before any new oil is sold. That decision turned out to be a bad miscalculation, say analysts. It ignored the biggest factor that has sent the world's oil demand soaring - the economic boom in China...