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...boys with no fathers at home, one in kindergarten and one in first grade. The results were encouraging. Daily attendance rates increased 6%, test scores jumped 6% to 9%, and there was a noticeable decrease in hostility. But after only a year, the U.S. Education Department brought an abrupt halt to the experiment because it violated civil rights laws...
...effort to pressure President Derek C. Bok and University officials into rethinking their investment policy, students at the School of Public Health have launched a campaign of radio spots calling on Harvard to halt all investment in the tobacco industry...
Still, the findings have boosted hopes. For the one in four U.S. families struck by alcoholism, the research may point to a new way to halt the deadly craving at its source...
About 35 miles south of Phnom Penh, the great throng ground to a temporary and unexplained halt, like a train whose engine had broken down. For several months, the Khmer Rouge did not seem to know what to do next. Some of the , evacuees grew ill and died. Others wandered away to unknown fates. Most were assigned to villages where they worked in return for food rations...
...independent Lithuania, that goal runs a poor second to their desire to remain on friendly terms with Gorbachev. If Lithuania provokes a blast of East-West acrimony, notes a senior British diplomat, "it could plunge us back into the cold war." The process of arms reduction would probably halt, and perhaps reverse. The democratization of Eastern Europe would be imperiled, as would prospects for a smooth unification of the Germanys. A return to superpower tensions would also bolster the influence of conservatives in Moscow and undercut Gorbachev's attempts to remake Soviet society...