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Drug testing appears to have wide support among college athletes. "I think things are going to change because of the drug tests," says Mark Bryant, a starting forward on Seton Hall's basketball team. "I hear some players saying, 'Hey, I've got to stop this because I'm taking the drug test.' " Says Quarterback Mike Orth of the University of Kansas: "Personally, I approve of it. I don't think athletes here are that uptight about it. I don't see it as discriminating against athletes. A lot of industries are doing it too. They are trying to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoring Off the Field | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

Consider, for example, the sad story of Warner LeRoy's attempt to help rebuild Manhattan's Bryant Park, a nine-acre urban oasis now inhabited largely by drug peddlers. Almost four years ago, New York City authorities announced a grand rehabilitation scheme that would feature the construction of a glass- walled cafe-restaurant. LeRoy, who operates the city-owned Tavern on the Green in Central Park, offered to build the restaurant with $12 million of his own money. "That will help make the park a great, wonderful public gathering place," said LeRoy, "like the Via Veneto or the Piazza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: On Preventing Useful Activity | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

LeRoy did spend several hundred thousand dollars on architectural plans, legal fees and so on, but there had to be protracted negotiations with the city parks department and the Bryant Park Restoration Corp. and the New York Public Library (which adjoins the park) and all the private watchdog groups that doggedly keep watch over the fall of every sparrow. After nearly four years of effort and expense, with no actual building begun and no end in sight, LeRoy this spring abandoned the whole project. "The process has so many hands in it that it is terribly hard to do without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: On Preventing Useful Activity | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

September of 1936 saw President James Bryant Conant '14, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 and 11,000 other alumni and friends of the University gather to commemorate the College's tercentenary Theater. The 300 was an international event, perhaps the most lavish university party in the country's history, with 2400 scholars from around the world attending along with representatives from 530 universities, colleges and learned societies...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: The Big Party | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...most important step in the reform movement has been taken at the interstate level by the Federation of State Medical Boards, a Fort Worth-based organization that acts as a clearinghouse for the individual state licensing boards. Under the leadership of Executive Vice President Bryant Galusha, the federation has done away with its ancient collection of dog-eared file cards on problem doctors and replaced it with a computerized data bank. It has persuaded the state boards to report new disciplinary actions swiftly, so that the information can be promptly entered into the system. This summer individual boards will begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Weeding Out the Incompetents | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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