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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Janzen has observed that dry forests can re-establish themselves. They need only to be protected from heavy grazing, overhunting and fires set annually by local residents to clear the land. If the forest is allowed to grow back naturally, a closed canopy forms in about 20 years. Aided by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Growing a Forest From Scratch | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

-- Red faced with anger, Shultz disclosed at a public congressional hearing that U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon John Kelly had bypassed the Secretary of State to conduct negotiations for the release of American hostages with, in Kelly's words, "arms to Iran as an inducement." Kelly had reported his results only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What He Needs to Know | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

Indeed they had. Appearing on nationwide television, French Premier Jacques Chirac had announced two days earlier the withdrawal of his proposal to reform the country's tradition-bound university system. The measure had sparked three weeks of bloody street protests that left some 200 students and policemen injured and Oussekine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Straight a's in Street Politics | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

The publication of hospital-specific mortality rates has provoked both interest and alarm. Hospital representatives faced with such potentially inflammatory hard numbers express concern that the consumer may not be able at all to tell the differences between a bad hospital (with high death rates due to poor care) and...

Author: By Donald M. Berwick, | Title: Quality Care at Reasonable Cost | 12/17/1986 | See Source »

Why must you hiss every time a professor says "Yale" in class? Hiding behind The Joke's inherent anonymity, hundreds. of Harvard undergraduates daily undergo a dreaded ritual of emitting the grating sound of a tire being punctured by a rusty nail. Don't look so innocent you whey-faced...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Stop, Before It's Too Late | 12/15/1986 | See Source »

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