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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Part of it is certainly the economy," Paolillo said. He also blamed student unwillingness to call police...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Crime Jumps 36 Per Cent For First Six Months of 1979 | 9/26/1979 | See Source »

...residential neighborhood, the neighbors call if they see someone suspicious, but if the people are transients, they don't know each other, they don't want to call and cause any trouble," Paolillo said...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Crime Jumps 36 Per Cent For First Six Months of 1979 | 9/26/1979 | See Source »

...fuel emergency hotline" residents can call to discover ways to save energy...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Council Votes Emergency Aid for Fuel Shortages | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

Holy Grail worked largely because they blithely ignored traditional dicta of screenwriting and approached the movie as a two-hour set of manageable episodes. Life Of Brian does a more creditable job as a "full length feature presentation," as the studios call it, but its sanity actually works against it. The risks Monty Python used to take with its narrative line--bouncing characters from film to animation, for example--would fail as often as they succeeded, but they were a trademark, often responsible for the funniest moments...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Monty Python's Flying Surplice | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

Analyzing blood cells, doctors discovered that the cancer victims shared a specific defect in two of each cell's 23 paired chromosomes. Part of chromosome No. 3 was attached to chromosome 8 and vice versa, a condition that geneticists call balanced reciprocal translocation. Brown and his team speculate that the interchange first occurred in an ancestor, perhaps through spontaneous mutation. It affected genes on the chromosomes that may direct normal kidney growth or protect against kidney cancer. Passed on through the generations, the translocation seems to be a visible warning sign that its bearer has a good chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Deadly Legacy | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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