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This postponement means that Harvard's ties to ROTC will not be severed completely until, at the earliest,eight yearsafter the Faculty Council's initial 1990 statement...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Yielding to Bigotry | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...science programs. The producers avoided the temptation to be encyclopedic and thereby to overwhelm viewers with information. And Johanson doesn't simply present facts. He shows how paleoanthropologists actually work, how they uncover fossils (the hard part) and how they analyze what they've found (the harder part). The earliest hint that his team had discovered an especially ancient human ancestor was a single knee joint plucked from the African dirt. It was old -- carefully dated volcanic ash in nearby rocks proved that. But it took laborious work by anatomist Owen Lovejoy to prove the knee belonged to a biped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Origin of Our Species | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...there was a suspicion that, as one of its senior staff remarked, "Lucian can be wonderful one picture at a time, but a row of 20 could be a bit of a bore." Happily, the museum has now changed its tune and hung some 80 Freuds, the earliest done in 1945, the latest finished this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fat Lady Sings | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...prospects [for survival] are actually pretty good," he said. "In cancer early detection is very important. If you know who to follow you can easily find the very earliest stages, operate, and people are essentially disease-free...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: Colon Cancer Gene Discovered | 12/7/1993 | See Source »

Construction on the traffic project isn't scheduled to begin until 1996 at the earliest. But the complicated nature of moving more than a dozen lanes of traffic from Boston to Cambridge has been hotly debated for several years...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Angell, | Title: New Traffic Plan Draws Fire From City Officials | 11/17/1993 | See Source »

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