Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the fallen California Angels fly into town for a three-game set. Despite the labors of star hurlers Nolan Ryan and Frank Tanana, as well as the financially bewildering batting heroics of transfer student Lyman Bostock, the Angels look as if they'd have trouble selling out Science Center B this year. They also look like they'll lose to the Red Sox a lot this week...
Films: Harvard Summer School Film Series: Gone with the Wind. 8:00 p.m., Science Center B. $1. Southern African Solidarity Committee Film: Lucia. 8:00 p.m., Science Center...
Soares had been walking a political tightrope since last December. At that time, the National Assembly voted no confidence in Soares' moderate leftist policies. The Premier survived, but only because the conservative-leaning Center Democratic Party (C.D.S.) agreed to form a governing coalition with the Socialists, who held 102 seats in the 263-member assembly. Last month the three C.D.S. Cabinet ministers threatened to resign unless Soares got rid of Agriculture Minister Luis Saias, a former Communist who the Centrists maintained was dragging his feet in restoring to its original owners lands seized by peasants during the turbulent 1974 revolution...
Does saccharin cause bladder cancer in human beings? This question is at the center of a debate that has raged since March 1977, when the Food and Drug Administration announced?largely on the basis of tests on rats?that it was planning to ban the artificial sweetener. Deluged with complaints from food manufacturers and consumers, Congress imposed an 18-month delay on the ban. Now come two reports that question the wisdom of any prohibition of saccharin...
Saccharin users were also heartened when Morris Cranmer, director of the FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research, criticized the Delaney clause, the law that requires the FDA to prohibit the use of any food additive shown to induce cancer in laboratory animals. In a 700-page report to FDA Head Donald Kennedy, Cranmer argued that the law failed to take into account that the potential risk of cancer from saccharin might be outweighed by possible benefits to diabetics or the obese...