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Scientists began suspecting that binge eating was a mental health problem in the late 1980s, according to Hudson...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Binge Eating Tops Anorexia | 2/4/2007 | See Source »

...Approximate number of Japanese who are 100 or older--up from 1,000 in the early 1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Feb. 12, 2007 | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...facility, it was only because she was almost as tall as my mother and we were no longer able to lift her and provide her with the care she needed. If the options available to Ashley's parents had been available to us in the early 1980s, we would have done the same thing. She might still be alive today, had we been able to care for her at home. Please do not condemn Ashley's parents until you have walked in their shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 12, 2007 | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...Like exhausted mining towns the world over, Yubari faced extinction, but during the 1980s and '90s, city officials tried to arrest its economic decline by borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars - with generous help from the central government - to build massive tourist facilities such as the melon museum, the robot museum and the ski resort. The plan worked for a while, and the city even became known for a winter film festival that attracted stars like Quentin Tarantino (who named a character in Kill Bill after the town). But tourism never paid off, and debts piled up. The city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "We Can Be Proud That Nobody Has Committed Suicide" | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...slew of other state-of-the-art techniques, scholars at the Harvard University Art Museums found materials in the paintings that were not available until years after Pollock died. The analysis revealed that one of the three paintings includes a brown pigment that was not created until the early 1980s and not available on the market until 1986. Pollock died in 1956. The other two paintings spawned similar findings, containing materials not available before 1962 or 1963, according to the study. Despite the growing controversy, Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art will display the majority...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pigment Could Undo Pollock | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

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