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...Crimson is much improved since its dismal start to the season. Harvard is 4-5 in its last nine games and has vastly increased its performance at the plate...

Author: By Mick Stern, | Title: Batswomen Fly Past Jumbos | 4/25/1990 | See Source »

Harvard (4-15 overall, 0-6 EIBL) continued to struggle through a dismal team slump as it dropped a doubleheader to Penn (19-9 overall, 11-3 EIBL), 1-0 and 3-2, in a makeup for Saturday's rainout...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: Batsmen Swept in Doubleheader | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

While know-nothingism is generally confined to the more dismal corners of the American psyche, it seems all too predictable that during the next decades many more mainstream white Americans will begin to speak openly about the nation they feel they are losing. There are not, after all, many nonwhite faces depicted in Norman Rockwell's paintings. White Americans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the very picture of their nation. Inspiring as it may be to the rest of the world, significant as it may be to the U.S. role in global politics, world trade and the pursuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond The Melting Pot | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...sported a needle-pointed waxed mustache. He carried a bottle of Carbona cleaner with him to hold grease spots on his rakish costume to a minimum. You got to see him at Sioux City, Iowa, on a scorched tarmac in the drought years, and the thrill lasted the whole dismal summer. Turner brought along his pet lion cub Gilmore, which draped its paws over the side of the cockpit as Turner cut the switch and saluted. In a back room at the Garber Facility, Gilmore, long ago a grown lion, proudly presides, beautifully stuffed and stored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silver Hill, Maryland: A Flight Down Memory Lane | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...dismal state of birth control in the U.S. was highlighted last week in a study issued by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The report states that American contraceptive research has come to a virtual halt, causing the U.S. to fall far behind other countries in developing new techniques. Methods available overseas but not in the U.S. include an injection that provides two months of protection and a skin implant that can release a contraceptive hormone into the bloodstream for up to five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: A Bitter Pill to Swallow | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

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