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Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles reflected yesterday's tone by quoting fellow Brit W.H. Auden. The dean said first-years should not allow competition with other students to be the standard by which they measured themselves.

Author: By Eliot Bush, | Title: 1619 First-Years to Register | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

The United Nations could hardly have picked a more appropriate place for next week's International Conference on Population and Development than crowded, chaotic Cairo. Home to 14 million people, the Egyptian capital shows all too clearly the consequences of the inexorable human drive to have children. Cairo's open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showdown in Cairo | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

Many share the desire of Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, founder of a more moderate and less monied organization called Cambio Cubano (Cubans for Change), to see a more measured policy toward the Havana regime, including direct negotiations with Castro to encourage a phased-in democracy. Says Menoyo: "We want the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Splits in the Family | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

The U.S. rate of premature death from gunshot wounds is rising faster than that of any leading killer except AIDS, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Firearms are now wasting a million years of potential life -- measured in working years -- in America every 12...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUNS . . . A MILLION YEARS OF DEATH | 8/26/1994 | See Source »

The resulting massacre can be measured not only in the doomsday language of disappearing species. The continual hunting of the largest, fittest specimens might, some experts say, eventually weaken their respective common gene pools. At the very least, the criminals are denying a glimpse of the most magnificent specimens to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killing Fields | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

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