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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support group such as GSA makes it easier for gay people to recognize the subtle ways in which anti gay myths are propagated. As Blacks have objected to the use of the world "boy" to refer to an adult and women to the use of "girl," gay people have began to recognize the ways society misperceives us. By recognizing these subtle attacks. It is possible to defend against them. If you see the arrow coming at you, you're less likely to get hurt...
...white-haired man who has farmed all of his adult life, tried to retain his jolly disposition. His son, who is tall, thin and bright, hovered in the background, staring glassy-eyed at what was happening. He watched a rotary hoe go for $950 (it would cost $3,500 new) and two irrigation motors for $155 (they would cost $1,000 if new); a small cultivator, bought ten years ago for $500, went for $2. Danny's wife Frieda, 33, stayed away from the auction. "She cried," Danny admitted. "She cried...
...landscape should get to the Fogg before April 11. We see Ruisdael entire, for the first and perhaps the last time. The man, however, disappears behind the work. Little is known of his life, except that he was the son of a mediocre painter, was baptized as an adult into the Reformed Church and was a sick man. He lived from 1628 to 1682. Nobody wrote about him or painted his portrait. Of his tastes, ambitions, fears and character, we know nothing...
Currently on a year-long leave from his country's foreign services as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA), he speaks with passion about an area of the world--Asia--where he has spent much of his adult life. His career beginning in 1961. Oberg was assigned, fresh out of law school, to the Swedish mission in Jakarta. He then moved on to Thailand but returned home in 1965 to take charge of the Asian affairs bureau in Stockholm. For the next five years, Oberg helped mediate between the United States and Hanoi. In 1970, he opened...
Since World War II, mainly because of the growing popularity of presalted, processed and frozen foods as well as a penchant for eating out, Americans have been taking in megadoses of salt. In the U.S. today the average adult consumes two to 2½ teaspoons a day, more than 20 times what the body needs. An estimated 35 million people suffer from hypertension, 60 million if mild cases are included. Nearly half of the population over 65 years old is affected. Says Boston Hypertension Expert Dr. Lot Page, chief of medicine at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital: "The link between salt...