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The 1961 U.N. convention called for coca's elimination by the late 1980s. A new accord struck in 1988 recognized the plant's traditional attributes and allowed for limited local use, while anti-narcotics forces continued to work to wipe out coca's drug-related cultivation, destroy the labs that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting for the Right to Chew Coca | 3/17/2008 | See Source »

Harvard reacted quickly to the 1970 UNESCO convention, according to Ebbinghaus. A committee drafted acquisition standards that were accepted by the university one year later, which may explain why Harvard has not yet faced a large public claim on its objects. The document stipulated that curators should make sure that...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman and Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Illegal Exhibits | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

But as many Americans have learned over the last few months, caucuses aren't so easy to calculate - and they seem designed for never-ending fights even after the math is done. There were some 8,247 local gatherings around Texas last week, and precinct chairs are supposed to report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Who Really Won Texas? | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

But it will be weeks before we know those exact numbers. The slow pace of the counting (and some other reasons too complex to mention here) led the state party to halt its progressive count and simply hold off announcing the precinct results until March 29. But both campaigns now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Who Really Won Texas? | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

In politics, the most important things almost always go down to the wire. And sometimes past it. Texas, it now appears, will be no exception to that rule. As Jesse Jackson once said as he made his own way to the Atlanta convention in 1988, clinging to nearly 1,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Who Really Won Texas? | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

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