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...letter said that the University was concerned with its ability to alter the structure if the building was designated an historic landmark...

Author: By Laura M. Murray, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Historical Landmark Denied | 3/4/1992 | See Source »

...response to concerns of the Vatican, the Reagan Administration agreed to alter its foreign-aid program to comply with the church's teachings on birth control. According to William Wilson, the President's first ambassador to the Vatican, the State Department reluctantly agreed to an outright ban on the use of any U. S. aid funds by either countries or international health organizations for the promotion of birth control or abortion. As a result of this position, announced at the World Conference on Population in Mexico City in 1984, the U.S. withdrew funding from, among others, two of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. and The Vatican on Birth Control | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

Probably the last serious biography of the artist by someone who knew him intimately, this first volume brings Picasso from childhood through the Blue and Rose periods, just as the 25-year-old was preparing to radically alter the course of 20th century painting with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. With the help of art historian Marilyn McCully, Richardson explores areas untouched by earlier biographers. He is a born storyteller and writes in a classic style that employs the full palette of ideas and personalities that ushered in the era of Modernism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

Probably the last serious biography of the artist by someone who knew him intimately, this first volume brings Picasso from childhood through the Blue and Rose periods, just as the 25-year-old was preparing to radically alter the course of 20th century painting with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. With the help of art historian Marilyn McCully, Richardson explores areas untouched by earlier biographers. He is a born storyteller and writes in a classic style that employs the full palette of ideas and personalities that ushered in the era of Modernism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991: BOOKS-NONFICTION | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

Although scientists still disagree over whether the threat of global warming is an imminent problem, new findings by a team of Harvard researchers strongly suggest that current high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will profoundly alter the ecosystem...

Author: By Robert C. Kwong, | Title: Scientists Say CO2 Will Alter Ecosystem | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

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