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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Area quake, officially known as the Loma Prieta Quake after a mountain perched almost atop the epicenter, was retrospectively upgraded last week to 7.1 on the Richter scale, vs. an original 6.9. Big all right, but still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now, The Financial Aftershocks | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...Last year toxic discharges increased 23%. In Los Angeles urban runoff and sewage deposits have had a devastating impact on coastal ecosystems, notably in Santa Monica Bay, which gets occasional floods of partly processed wastes from a nearby sewage- treatment plant during heavy rainstorms. Off San Diego's Point Loma, a popular haunt of skin divers, the waters are so contaminated with sewage that undersea explorers run the risk of bacterial infection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Dirty Seas | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

Surgeons at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California only last October transplanted a heart into Newborn Paul Holc. What made the transplant different was that the donor, a Canadian infant known as Baby Gabriel, was born anencephalic, that is, without most of her brain. Like virtually all anencephalics, she could not have survived more than a few days outside the womb; unlike most, Gabriel died before her healthy organs deteriorated. Then, early in January, surgeons in Mexico City announced that for the first time, they had successfully grafted tissue from a miscarried fetus into the brains of two Parkinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: A Balancing Act of Life and Death | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...standard: that death occurs when the infant's pulse and breathing have stopped. Thus anencephalics would be taken off the respirator at set intervals to see whether spontaneous breathing had ceased. When it stopped, the infants would be pronounced dead and their organs taken. The few medical centers like Loma Linda that handle anencephalic transplants currently follow similar protocols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: A Balancing Act of Life and Death | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

Sept. 1CAL. POLY SLO W2-0 Sept. 5 at CSU-Northridge L3-2 Sept. 7 CALIFORNIA W3-0 Sept. 11 at CSU-Fullerton L3-2 Sept. 13 CHAPMAN W4-0 Sept. 15 POINT LOMA W4-0 Sept. 18 UNLV W2-0 Sept. 23 UC-SANTA BARBARA W2-0 Sept. 25 at San Francisco L2-1 Sept. 27 at Santa Clara W1-0 Sept. 29 PORTLAND W3-2 Oct. 7 U. of SAN DIEGO W2-0 Oct. 9 at CSU-Los Angeles W4-0 Oct. 11 CSU-San Francisco W4-0 Oct. 18 at UC-Irvine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: San Diego St. | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

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