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...Fifteen minutes into the game, Sasner took a pass from center Liz Ward and lined it to the left of Cornell goalie Sandy Gilbert...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Icewomen Sit Atop Ivies, Top Visiting Cornell, 5-1 | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Lone Voyager | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...tons. Many biologists trace the sharks' increasing aggression to recent rulings like the U.S. Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972. That law makes it illegal to hunt pinnipeds like sea lions, elephant seals and sea otters, all staples of an adult shark's diet. Fifteen elephant seals lived in the Red Triangle area in 1961; by 1984 there were 5,000. The sea lion population has been increasing by 5% a year. As a result, Great Whites seem to be responding to boom times in their food supply by producing larger litters more rapidly. And though Great Whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Dangers of the Red Triangle | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...what I wanted to be all along, a psychotic poet." It took this country's legal system over a year and a half to take Hinckley at his word, and decide that his psychosis was more than just the imagined mask of a calculating evader of justice. Over a fifteen month period-- from the shooting spree of March 1981 to the June verdict of the following year--Hinckley was to emerge as the enigmatic author and protagonist of what he himself called "my melodrama...

Author: By Nicolas J. Mcconnell, | Title: Love Means Never Having to Say You're Guilty | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

...many Americans, though, the complicated medical, psychiatric and legal maneuverings of the trial and Hinckley's subsequent acquittal by reason of insanity seemed neither poetic nor just. The computer printout that served as a mere index to the papers filed in the case stretched to some fifteen feet. The medical and psychiatric interviews of Hinckley climbed into the hundreds of hours. The cost of the month and a half long trial totalled some two and a half to three million dollars, with federal charges at least three times that spent by the oil-rich Hinckleys...

Author: By Nicolas J. Mcconnell, | Title: Love Means Never Having to Say You're Guilty | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

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