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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where in the end the guy does get his girl. But it's quite clear what pubescent sex will do to those who practice it. They will be caught in house fires, or confined to psychiatric institutions. "Do that and you'll go soft. Do that and you'll burn in hell." Or go blind. Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that statutory rape is dangerous to your health. Join the un-hooked generation...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Coitus Calvin-esque | 7/31/1981 | See Source »

...wonder: Is Brooke Shields truly obsession worthy? And can she carry, commercially, another movie about another kind of obsession? The answer is no. One simply refuses to believe that even a totally innocent adolescent could be so smitten by this dull if comely girl that he would burn down her house because her father, defending his Oedipal turf, orders him away for a month to cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mad Pash | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

Lives of great men all remind us As their pages o 'er we turn, That we're apt to leave behind us Letters that we ought to burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 13, 1981 | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...cure, it blisters the feet, tongues and mouths of animals, and causes lameness, weight loss and, in dairy cows, reduced milk production. At least 33 different species are susceptible, mostly such cloven-hoofed creatures as cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer. For farmers the usual recourse is to kill, burn and bury infected livestock. Often an entire herd must be slaughtered, even if only one animal has been stricken, lest the disease spread. Some years ago, British authorities had to kill more than 280,000 animals to contain a major outbreak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Magic from Gene Splicing | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...would be to buy enriched uranium from a nuclear nation as part of a deal for a reactor designed to burn such weapons-grade fuel. The reactor Iraq acquired from France would have used 93% enriched U-235. During the course of operation, some of this material might be skimmed off for nuclear weaponry, although that would be a risky proposition. The IAEA inspectors might spot the diversion, or some of the foreign technicians at the site might blow the whistle on the schemers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The ABCs off A-Bombmaking | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

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