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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both squads will compete in the Greater Boston Championships October 6, the H-Y-P races at Princeton October 20 and the Heptagonals at Van Cortland Park, N.Y. October 27. The ECAC/IC4A District One Championships November 11 are the opportunity for Jones and company to qualify for the NCAA Championships in Annapolis, Md. November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life With the Jones | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Studies conducted in Boston, Atlanta and Scandinavia indicate that at least some of the injuries to the fetus may be corrected in the womb if a mother gives up alcohol before her third trimester. Says Sterling Clarren, professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine: "It's pretty clear if a woman stops drinking in her second trimester, the size and the healthiness of the baby will improve, but there is no evidence that its intelligence will improve." Moreover, even the improvement in appearance may be deceptive. "The babies definitely are bigger and look healthier," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alcohol's Youngest Victims | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...people are neutral about John Silber. After 18 stormy years as president of Boston University, Silber, 63, continues to delight admirers and enrage critics with his outspoken conservative views and hard-nosed leadership style. George Washington University president Stephen Trachtenberg, who worked under Silber at B.U., calls him "one of the most distinctive and seminal voices in American higher education today." Freda Rebelsky Camp, head of the B.U. chapter of the American Association of University Professors, says he runs a "sleazy, fascist regime" and dismisses his acknowledged intelligence as irrelevant: "First-rate minds can be lunatics, like Ezra Pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Ivory Tower Triggerman | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...named B.U. president in 1971. Since then he has increased the university's budget more than sevenfold, hired and fired faculty with abandon, and imposed his tight moral code on campus. Although Silber has made his share of enemies over the years, says George Washington president Trachtenberg, "nobody says Boston University is not a better place now than when he came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Ivory Tower Triggerman | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...forthcoming book, John Silber, Boston University's outspoken and controversial president, speaks his mind on teachers, students and declining standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134 No.9 AUGUST 28, 1989 | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

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