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...building, costly deans' receptions, and other expansion-related endeavors--do enhance the school's training. But until the K-School's Edifice Complex gives way to a true appreciation of the value of a racially and sexually balanced community, it will offer a lop-sided education--and will churn out leaders sadly unable to advance the cause of affirmative action in a nation that sorely needs...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: A Choice Between Two Futures | 2/27/1981 | See Source »

...quarterback massacre, the Harvard offensive line faced a double-edged dilemma. Sophomore split end Ron Cuccia pulled a hamstring while subbing at quarterback, and the Crimson lost its most dangerous deep threat. You didn't have to coach in the Ivy League to realize the Crimson would have to churn up yardage on the ground...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Big Mike Durgin | 11/22/1980 | See Source »

...York Globe stretched all the way from Forty-eight Street to Forty-ninth Street, a space of one city block, nearly two full acres filled with four long rows of reporters' desks...At deadline time, as six o'clock drove down upon the men and women, it would churn with action and the reporters would rock in their seats like the pistons of a vast, Teutonic engine screaming at maximum force. There were over one hundred reporters attached to the City Desk alone, and when their telephones began to fire, when their typewriters began to rattle like a line...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Not a School for Scandal? | 11/5/1980 | See Source »

Giant semitrailer trucks groaning under loads of heavy oil-drilling equipment churn up dust on the dirt roads of Evanston, Wyo. On the high buttes surrounding the town, tall trapezoidal rigs often push drilling bits 15,000 ft. and more into the earth in search of oil and natural gas. More than 100 wells are already in operation in the area, some of them pumping oil from directly beneath Main Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Booming Times for Driilers | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...from victims of Hodgkin's disease, a form of cancer in which the spleen is usually removed during treatment. The cells had already been exposed to the chemical dinitrochlorobenzene and were making antibodies. These cells were then fused with cancerous bone-marrow cells, yielding hybrid cells that could churn out the antibody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Quest for a Magic Bullet | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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