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...acknowledged by the SDI office, one human cog in the military-industrial machine was busy refuting its conclusions. Speaking on the condition that he not be identified, the official ventured that, in his opinion, the Russians would not be able to develop a fast-burn rocket for at least fifteen years...

Author: By Barnes C. Ellis, | Title: A Burned Out Weapon | 2/8/1986 | See Source »

...Fifteen minutes after I began to speak, some students began to enter the room. They came in one at a time, and made their way to seats. I did not feel they would get enough information about the course by arriving late. And, yes, it seemed intrusive to me--and therefore to others in the room as well. I said, jokingly, that when I lecture it is like a semi-trance. I explained this by saying that I do not have a prepared text, but some notes of major points I wish to make, and that I rely on free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Our Readers | 2/5/1986 | See Source »

There are plenty of bums in Cambridge. Don't call them transients, vagrants, victims. They're bums. Who smell bad. Who don't work. Who talk dirty. Who sleep on vents throughout the city at night when it's fifteen degrees or colder while passersby proffer money and pity and wonder what it's like to be one of them. A bum in Cambridge. To huddle on a heat vent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Accidental Kindness, Incidental Cruelty | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

...Saturday--Fifteen Harvard Summer School students are expelled after Marshall R. Pihl '55, summer school director, discovers marijuana plants growing in the annual class-project archaeological dig outside Weld Hall. The course's head, Visiting Professor of Botanical anthropology Lawrence McKinney, taking a summer break from running his THC firm, says he is "shocked and disgusted... Really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Banner Year | 1/6/1986 | See Source »

...Fifteen hundred protesters gathered at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal last week to mark a grim anniversary: deadly methyl isocyanate gas had leaked from the plant exactly a year earlier, killing at least 1,750 people and injuring thousands more. The protesters burned effigies of Warren M. Anderson, the firm's chairman, and demanded a trial. Others spent the day at Bhopal's hospitals, where some 60,000 victims are still receiving treatment. Said Nassur Khan, 36, who suffers breathing difficulties and severe stomach pains: "I wish I could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Anniversary of a Tragedy | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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