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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Louis J. Bakanowsky, chairman of VES, says broad requirements in his department provide students with a wide base of study...

Author: By Grace H. Freedman, | Title: A Major By Any Other Name | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

Though DMSO was discovered by a Russian scientist in 1866, it attracted little interest until the 1950s when increasing industrial uses were found for it. DMSO, derived as a byproduct in converting trees to paper, is an antifreeze and a versatile solvent for a broad spectrum of chemicals. But scientists were startled to find it also had a remarkable capacity to penetrate skin and tissues and enter the bloodstream; its only apparent side effects were an oysterlike taste in the mouth and a garlicky breath odor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: DMSO Dustup | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...HARVARD STUDENTS can be considered a fair sampling of the art public, it's going to be a while before artists like Richard Long gain broad acceptance. Long's Installation" in the courtyard of the Fogg Museum received little more than skeptical glances and cursory remarks from students drifting out of Fine Arts 13 last week...

Author: By Lois E. Nesbitt, | Title: It's Environmental | 4/22/1980 | See Source »

...constitutional challenge, and began encouraging interested states and localities to enact it. The model prohibits, among other things, the manufacture, sale, advertisement and use of any object that is intended for growing or ingesting an illegal drug. The trouble with such language is that it tends to be overly broad. Authorities would have to prove state of mind since many items that are tools of the drug trade have perfectly legal uses. Because McDonald's coffee stirrers, for example, can double as cocaine spoons, the restaurant chain recently withdrew them from use. Garden shops, too, could run afoul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Potshots at Head Shops | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...actors are assembled from a broad pool. One man is a superintendent of a Bronx apartment house; one voice that sings "Reach out" belongs to Phoebe Snow; there is a kid much in demand because he had his front teeth extracted when he was 2½. There is also a serious actress: "I won't do those brutal pesticides that poison the environment, and I won't do douches ... You might say that my standards are basically political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Words from a Sponsor | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

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