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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some areas antiabortionists have taken their fight to the streets. Women arriving at clinics in many cities face a formidable line of protesters, or "sidewalk counselors," who try to talk them out of getting abortions. Threatened with a boycott of their lucrative annual cookie sale by right-to- lifers, Detroit's Girl Scouts in 1984 deleted mention of abortion and birth control from a proposed training program for adults. In Arizona and North Carolina, Fundamentalists are seeking to prevent public funding for Planned Parenthood, the organization dedicated to providing family planning, including abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jerry Falwell's Crusade | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

McColley is one of 33 cyclists--roughly half of whom are Harvard students--who Saturday completed a nine-week-long transcontinental bike trip to raise money to help fight world hunger...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Bicyclists Complete Trip To Fight World Hunger | 8/13/1985 | See Source »

Thomas Seery '85, who participated in the ride Jast year, and led it this year, was impressed with the number of communities' hat had undertaken serious campaigns to fight hunger...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Bicyclists Complete Trip To Fight World Hunger | 8/13/1985 | See Source »

...film is that it peaks early. Max becomes the deciding piece in a bizarre power struggle between Auntie, who controls the surface of Bartertown, and Master Blaster, a two person unit that controls the energy supply of the city below ground. This confrontation is resolved early on in a fight to the death in an arena called Thunderdome. The rest of the film is hence "Beyond Thunderdome...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Beyond Cult Films | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

...someone who will fight for what he believes is right for the college, but not to the exclusion of considering other people's views," adds Assistant Dean for the House System Thomas A. Dingman...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: University Enters New Era as Three Deans Assume Positions | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

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