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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wilburn Wilkinson, 48, decided to go to court. The divorced electronics technician sued the Spring Branch (Texas) Independent School District, charging that Northbrook High School is discriminating against his sons Brian, 17, and Travis, 15, by enforcing a dress and appearance code that controls male -- but not female -- hair length...
Morgan's ordeal should soon be coming to an end. Last week the Senate passed a bill that sets a one-year limit on the length of time an individual in a child-custody case can be jailed for civil contempt in the District of Columbia without facing trial for criminal contempt. Morgan could be freed once the Senate bill is reconciled with somewhat broader legislation previously passed by the House. Meanwhile, on Sept. 20, the full District of Columbia Appeals Court is set to hear oral arguments on a ruling last month by a three-member panel...
...south. An adventurous monkey could climb into the jungle canopy in the foothills of the Andes and swing through 2,000 miles of continuous 200-ft.-high forest before reaching the Atlantic coast. The river itself, fed by more than 1,000 tributaries, meanders for 4,000 miles, a length second only to the Nile's 4,100 miles. No other river compares in volume: every hour the Amazon delivers an average of 170 billion gal. of water to the Atlantic -- 60 times the flow of the Nile. Even 1,000 miles upriver, it is often impossible to see from...
Harvard advanced to the finals of the Ladies' Plate in Henley, England, before succumbing to Nottinghamshire County July 2 by two-thirds of a length. Nottinghamshire's time of 6:11 set a Ladies' Plate record, breaking the old record established the day before by the Crimson in its semifinal win over Penn...
...Harvard Ph.D. who previously worked for the Rand Corp., is pondering the criticism and will respond in the winter issue of the National Interest. And if he can take time from readying position papers for his new bosses at State, he hopes to explore his thesis at greater length. Unlike history as he sees it, the debate sparked by Fukuyama may be just beginning...