Word: allene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Spring The Crimson spoke with Allen Ginsberg, beatnik poet and social activist. The following are excerpts from that conversation...
...freshman biology students know enough to sink this study," declares Anne Fausto-Sterling, professor of medical science at Brown University. Others are more receptive to LeVay's work. "It makes sense," says Laura Allen, a neuroanatomist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Finding a difference in the INAH, which influences male sexual behavior, "is what one would expect." The finding also has social implications. "People who believe that sexual orientation is a choice help legitimize discrimination against homosexuals," says Melissa Hines, a UCLA psychologist. "But if it is immutable, or partly so, then that argues for legal protections...
Even when family members get along, the gags often get in the way. ABC's Home Improvement boasts an appealing star in Tim Allen and a nuclear family with no obviously malfunctioning units (at least no relatives from the Ozarks). But the show is hampered by its originating gimmick: Allen, the host of a TV fix-it show, is all thumbs as a repairman at home. There are some amusing gibes at power-tool macho ("What is your problem with the blender? It's the only blender on the block that can puree a brick"), but dubious prospects for long...
...weakest U.S. upturn since World War II. "Even if there were no recession, there would still be massive layoffs," says Hugh Johnson, chief economist for the New York securities firm First Albany. "People are going to lose their jobs, and they are not going to be rehired." Concurs Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisers: "The name of the game is to hold down the nose count...
...number of cases is still quite small, but it doubles every 14 months -- it was not surprising that the board seemed open to the proposal. But when it came time to decide, the condom measure lost by one vote. In a way, that was not surprising either. "Personally," declares Allen Whiteley, who was board vice president at the time, "I think it would have been encouraging sex rather than discouraging...