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...read with great discomfort the BLSA letter on the PLO "teach-in", submitted to the Crimson on April 28. As two students who viewed the entire "teach-in", we would like to clarify some inaccuracies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More BLSA | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

...group of 15 people who have been waiting several hours are hustled onto the stage, some with their coats still on. Within four minutes they are all being thanked for their time and urged out another door. As the production team members glance at one another in apparent discomfort, Cy Feuer reminds them of the lesson that the dreamers in the waiting line have already learned: "We are in the thank-you-very-much business." -By William A. Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Casting About for a Chorus | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...more people. Kolff will donate the first two devices, but the other patients will each have to pay about $10,000. In addition, implant surgery at he Utah medical center will cost approximately $7,000. Doctors say that the implantation is comparable to root-canal surgery, but pain and discomfort disappear after about a week. Thereafter, the barely visible implanted plug requires no special care. Dr. Michael M. Merzenich, director of the Coleman Laboratory at the University of California at San Francisco, praises Ineraid. "I think that ultimately a very high level of speech comprehension will be achieved," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Success for the Bionic Ear | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

What exactly is this "gender gap"? Why are both Democrats and Republicans eyeing it with increasing interest, the former with growing glee and the latter with growing discomfort? Why, after 63 years of women's suffrage, should the fact of being a female voter(or a male one for that matter) color a choice in the voting booth...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Gender Gaps | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...freelance photographer is covering a revolutionary war in the Third World. Among his many expectations of discomfort, danger and the constant threat of death, he dares harbor only one decent hope: that in some unlikely 250th or 500th of a second his shutter will open and shut and almost by accident freeze an image that will make some human sense out of the anguish to which he is the world's paid witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Losing Big | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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