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ONE SILVER LINING of the cloud of construction that descended on Harvard this summer was work to make parts of two undergraduate Houses accessible to the disabled. Thanks to the alterations, persons in wheelchairs for the first time will be able to use Leverett dining hall and, potentially, be housed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Agenda for the Year | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

One thick-aired Thursday morning in Manhattan, Charlie Garcia picked up ten dead paupers from the morgue at Bellevue Hospital. All the dead were adults, so they were in adult pine coffins, which cost the city $32.90 each. The price includes a tar-paper lining and a handful of zinc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Last Stop for the Poor | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

The test, called chorionic villi sampling (CVS), is a painless procedure and can be done in a physician's office as early as the fifth week of pregnancy. To perform it, the obstetrician inserts a long thin tube through the vagina into the uterus. A second doctor, following the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gene Screen | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

The agreement helps soothe the jangled nerves caused by U.S. policies during the past few years on sales to the Soviet Union. In 1980 the Carter Administration imposed a partial embargo on such sales in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviets responded by lining up other suppliers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Harvest: A new U.S.-Soviet grain deal | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

DIED. Simcha Ehrlich, 67, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, an uncharismatic but influential politician and a moderate voice in Menachem Begin's ruling coalition; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. A Polish-born optician who was elected to the Knesset in 1969, he became chairman of the Liberal Party and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 4, 1983 | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

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