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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TAKE Back the Night Week '89, a Radcliffe Union of Students-sponsored series of events designed to highlight the problems of violence against women in society, last week featured a controversial--though disturbing--discussion of the relationship between pornography and rape...
...Harvard softball team managed a split in its doubleheader with Maine at Soldiers Field. Elizabeth Crowley provided the highlight of the afternoon when she powered a two-run triple with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to give the Crimson (7-6) a thrilling 5-4 victory. Maine (16-18) pulled out the second game...
...flight's highlight was the deployment of the $100 million Tracking and Data-Relay Satellite, which completes an orbiting communications network that will let the space agency reduce its reliance on an expensive series of ground stations. Much more was riding on Discovery, though, than a single satellite. Without a successful launch, NASA could not hope to stick to its ambitious schedule of seven shuttle flights this year. And those flights are vital to a whole series of important scientific missions, including sending a probe to Jupiter and placing a powerful telescope in orbit. Those launches, plus several other missions...
...Alar on apples, it turns out that 60 Minutes did not highlight the fact that only 5% of apple growers who account for the U.S. harvest spray with Alar. On Thursday three federal agencies responsible for food safety declared that apples are not dangerous to eat and that Alar is not an "imminent hazard" to children. Nonetheless, that same day Meryl Streep testified before a packed Senate Labor and Human Resources subcommittee hearing on Alar's use, "Even now, we don't know what's on our food . . . I no longer want my children to be part of this experiment...
...matter of trying to highlight the fact that there are no Hispanics in the faculty. The message is, 'It's okay for Latinos to be students, but they are not good enought to be professors,'" said Alianza Co-Chair Ana Maria Salazar...