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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Rollo Tryon concentrates on the plant's visible characteristics, his wife concentrates on the tiny fern spores, on which she is a renowned expert. "I work on the little parts, while he does the big stuff," she says...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Botanical Beast Or Buddy? | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

...gender gap" remains a factor in American politics despite President Reagan's recent good showing among women voters, an expert on women's noting said in a speech at Boylsion Hall last night...

Author: By Margaret Seaver, | Title: Political Scientist Says Female Vote Stays Liberal | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

With the cost of U.S. warplanes climbing faster than an F-15 fighter, one defense expert has suggested that it would take the entire U.S. military budget to buy a single aircraft by the middle of the 21st century. Last week a Government study cited one possible reason for the runaway prices: lavish pay for the executives and employees of some major U.S. defense contractors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Procurement: Sky-High Salaries | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...voice-altering devices. A Japanese gangster held up his hand to show how he had chopped off half his ringer to prove his repentance after having been disrespectful to his leader. He had put the severed finger in a small jar and sent it to the gang boss. One expert on the Chinese gangs told how members drank wine laced with both human and chicken blood while being initiated into their crime societies. He claimed that they condoned the murder of infants so that the tiny bodies could be stuffed with heroin and carried across international borders by young women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Triads and the Yakuza | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

Marsden, a native of Cambridge. England is also recognized as an expert in comet studies. In the early 1950's he concentrated on mathematical astrophysics such as calculating comets' orbits around the sun. He became the first person to calculate new orbits with a high speed computer...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Something Strange? Who Ya Gonna Call? | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

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