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Armageddon is a serious game that any number can play. The electronic bulletin boards offered by such computer networks as CompuServe and Genie are stuffed with doomsday speculations. And one need not be born again to experience a frisson of apocalyptic concern. Also enjoying a new spasm of popularity is the 16th century astrologer Nostradamus, one of whose gnomic utterances predicts the arrival in 1999 of the "Great King of Terror" -- easily identifiable as Saddam, to those with vivid imaginations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Apocalypse Now? | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...article in the spring 1990 issue of the Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, Dorsey lamented the fact that "the cameras are unable to capture every moment of a medical student's career, which makes the choice and the timeliness of their periodic appearances even more crucial...

Author: By Andrew D. Cohen, | Title: In the Limelight: Students in `New Pathway' | 1/18/1991 | See Source »

...First Baptist Church of Olympia, Wash., added prayer services today and tomorrow. Yesterday morning, the Rev. Robert Reid stood at the pulpit and waved the church bulletin, which contained a list of prayer requests for family and friends in the Mideast. There were 23 names listed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Religious Leaders Pray for Peace | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

Such reports underscore a dismaying fact: for nearly every item of good news on the drug front, there is at least one bad-news bulletin. While the U.S. has made significant progress in curbing casual drug use, it has made far less headway on the problems that most trouble the public, hard-core addiction and drug-related violence. Last year the National Institute on Drug Abuse estimated that the number of current users of illegal drugs had fallen to 14.5 million from 23 million in 1985. But while there was a dramatic decrease in the number of occasional users...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War on Drugs: A Losing Battle | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

Posters on the ground between Widener and Lamont. Posters on Science Center bulletin boards. Posters on the trees lining the walk between the Quad and the Yard. Posters hanging from Holworthy. Posters on every kiosk recognized by the University...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: It's Muzak to My Ears | 11/28/1990 | See Source »

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