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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their sophomore year, both joined WHRB's rock department, described by one somewhat disenchanted member as "a collection of misfits and degenerates who share an almost psychotic knowledge of obscure music." There, Tarver says, he "learned about music from the point of view of a DJ--one of the lower life forms...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: And His Band Plays On | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...another group of parents brought the same charges against the state and won. A specific restructuring plan has not yet been worked out, but Texas has agreed that it is unfair that the children of Edgewood, a lower middle-class residential district with low property values, receive an inferior education. One possible remedy under consideration is allotting funds based on sales tax instead of property...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: And His Band Plays On | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...filled lower tiers of Sanders, Gordimer spoke of literature's revolutionary function once a "people's literature" has been created. "Writing can be prescribed as a therapy of industrial alienation," she said...

Author: By Jennifer Griffin, | Title: Gordimer Gives PBK Address | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...have long been open to equal employment in the Soviet Union. Women are train conductors and engineers, garbage collectors and construction workers, but often they receive less pay than their male colleagues. "It's not written in any law that women's salaries for the same work will be lower, but that's what happens," says Elena Weinstein, 35, who worked as a translator at Moscow's Pedagogical Institute before immigrating to Israel last December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroines Of Soviet Labor | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...reel with a screen that tells how far the line is cast and how fast it is reeled in. The $695 Cannon Digi-Troll, sold by Michigan-based S & K Products, not only drops a trolling lure to a measured depth but can also be programmed to raise or lower it automatically until it finds the fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Fish Don't Stand a Chance | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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