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Linda J. Greenhouse '68, who covers the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times, notes that the women's movement in particular did not get into full swing until the mid-1970s...
...idea sounds eminently reasonable: the former Soviets are experts at launching heavy objects, while the U.S. hasn't tried it since the mid-1970s. They already have a working space station; the U.S. does not. And the Russians have far more experience in the physiology of long-term space flight than their American counterparts have. If this bold collaboration comes off, it could lead to even more ambitious projects, like a joint manned mission to Mars, and forever change the way space research is done. Says John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University: "Cooperation...
Rothenberg first became noticed in New York in the mid-1970s, with a series of paintings that depicted -- of all things -- horses. Despite her other merits, she is no George Stubbs, and her horses were of a generic cast, crude silhouettes with a certain amount of texture and internal patterning but no modeling, with heads like wombats' and hooves of clay. The surprise that they occasioned at the time came less from their fidelity to the equine form than from the fact that they were there on canvas...
...drug has been mired in controversy since the mid-1970s, when its use as a contraceptive was blocked because of a link to cancer in animals (a link that seemed weak or absent in subsequent human studies). Some women's groups are worried that it will be pushed on low-income women or used to enforce compliance to a birth control regimen...
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