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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ginsburg's personal life may offer a clue to his thinking on social issues. After his first marriage ended in divorce, Ginsburg married Obstetrician- Gynecologist Hallee Morgan in 1981. Their two-year-old daughter is also named Hallee Morgan. When asked why the little girl does not have her father's surname, Christopher DeMuth, president of the American Enterprise Institute and an old friend of Ginsburg's, told the New York Times, "It is a modern marriage taken to the ultimate."Could Douglas Ginsburg, to the horror of some conservatives, turn out to be an ardent feminist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: If At First You Don't Succeed . . . | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...first clue was Denise Katsias' jersey. It was turquoise...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Crimson Goes Turquoise | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

...attention soon shifted to the wing flaps. The clue came from the plane's sophisticated flight-data recorder, the so-called black box (it is actually bright orange, for easy spotting) that monitors everything from airspeed to brake temperatures. It showed no indication that the pilot had extended the flaps. Nor did conversation between the pilots in the cockpit include a mention of the flaps during the preflight verbal checklist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sifting Through the Wreckage | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...find, which includes skull, arm bones, thigh and shin fragments from a single adult female, permits a more accurate assessment. The length of the thigh bone is a gauge of height, and the relative length of the upper arm bone to the upper leg bone is a vital clue to body build. The remains, described in the British journal Nature last week, belong to a creature that lived about 1.8 million years ago and stood no more than 3 1/2 feet tall. Says Johanson, director of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley: "This may be the smallest hominid ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lucy Gets a Younger Sister | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...tell, juniors are too busy working on their junior papers to go to the parties, and freshmen generally don't have a clue. Many sophomores, on the other hand, make it a point to attend all the parties they can, and they often end up running the taps or helping to change the kegs. In fact, I know a couple of sophomores who want to give a senior bar of their...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Senior Bar Hopping | 5/1/1987 | See Source »

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