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...breakthrough, the pill is also a flash point for political dissension: The efficacy of the pill is a boon to women's health care advocates, who see RU-486 as a much-needed, less invasive alternative to surgical abortions. Abortion opponents, of course, view the pill's potency with alarm, and have urged the FDA to withhold approval of the drug...
...Graphic Arts International Union voice pay demands to the University and continue a lengthy strike. More than 150 students rally in support of the printers. 28 - A fire caused by a lit cigarette guts a suite in Lowell House and sends one student to the hospital. The fire alarm system fails to function, leaving most students unaware of the blaze until police and firefighters arrive...
They walked to the alarmed door at the back of the giant hall, leaving the sheets and the broken table to puzzle tomorrow's workers. Pausing at the threshold, he turned to aim his orange-stained glass at the statue's head. Before plastic struck marble, they were out the door. Members of the 35th Reunion Class still awake at that hour looked out their Canaday windows to see two dark figures turn the corner onto Prescott Street. Behind them, under the stained-glass windows of Annenberg Hall, John Quincy Adams shrieked out an alarm to a vast and empty...
...Anne G. Davies '50 remembers, men rarely came to the Radcliffe Quad. When they did, they were usually fathers who stayed on the first floor--and if one dared to venture upstairs, the front desk would issue an alarm...
...commander's chair was understandably nervousmaking in the volatile Middle East. In Washington there were worries that Hizballah or Palestinian extremists might somehow jeopardize the peace process by provoking Barak to retaliate. At the United Nations--which now has to police the Lebanese peace--there was some alarm that Barak had moved unilaterally, but that was followed by cautious optimism. The move was textbook Barak: surprising (his last name means "lightning" in Hebrew), courageous and smart...