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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides, one and a half hours isn't a lot of time to cover an entire academic subject, says Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Science Michael B. McElroy. "We're try to cover the origin of life, new evolutionary theory and the more recent meterological past of the earth. To do the entire earth and life in an hour and a half is quite a feat...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: 106 Educational Oases Amidst the Hoopla; Harvard Presents Its Academic Symposia | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...During this sort of occasion Harvard isn't going to exactly air its own dirty laundry," says Alan Brinkley, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History. "There is a blandness to the media coverage typical of events like this," Brinkley says of the stories that have been written for the 350th...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Learning How to Read, Write and Rewrite | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...ride. The networks, eager to give an air of importance to the summer lull, are all too willing to play along with staged news, and thus share a complicity. President Reagan now has big-league competition in the creation of news, non-news and is-it-or-isn't-it news. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev has obviously spent a lot of time analyzing not just Reagan's positions but his techniques for putting them across. The Kremlin has shown a new adroitness in presenting its case abroad. Reagan and Gorbachev have spent the summer in graceful minuet, each moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newswatch: Making News and Non-News | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...wants to clarify Betsy's use of the word love in relation to them. "People are going to think, particularly with this group of paintings, that it's a sexual love. It's not. We think of love only as two human beings in love. But it isn't in love. It's love. It's love toward an object. It can be a love toward those shells," he says, pointing nearby. "It's a love of warmth, of finding something precious. It's like a wonderful animal, a dog that will come up and sit in your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Andrew Wyeth's Stunning Secret | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

Reagan insisted to skeptical reporters at the White House that his program "isn't just rhetoric alone. We know that there's going to be a cost, and we're going to have to find that money." White House officials are boosting this year's $2.1 billion total antidrug budget by about $500 million next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crack Down | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

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