Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Progressive Alliance for Life was foundedlast year "to offer a different viewpoint" onabortion issues, said Cathleen M. Taylor '90, oneof the group's founding directors...
...group probably will not participate in theJanuary 23 annual march on Washington protestingthe 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Courtdecision, Taylor said. "It's right in the middleof exams...
...People need to be called, you need to get on people's cases a little bit, but people seem to be very sympathetic to the pro-choice movement," James M. Kittelberg '90, another organizer for the group, said. "Once you call people andget them moving the results can be astounding...
Quan's admiration for Zhao may be a bit too public, but many of the Chinese I meet seem to share it. About 1,000 miles from Quan's farm, in Guanxian, a group of excited Chinese tourists is visiting the Dujiangyan irrigation system -- another marvel of China's ancient genius -- built 2,200 years ago. On a misty morning the tourists can barely make out an aging, abandoned hydroelectric plant about a mile upstream. Like much of what was built by the Soviets during the heyday of Sino-Soviet cooperation in the 1950s, this power station too is crumbling...
...many ways it is still a collectivist town. The village employs doctors and covers all medical costs -- a practice $ no longer common in China, where many must pay for health care out of their own pockets. Land is privately owned, but much of its cultivation is accomplished by group effort...