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Fallon, who sat in on Tribe’s constitutional law class for a semester in the mid-1980s, said that “Harvard students should be thrilled” by Tribe’s new course offering...
Roberts would bring other advantages as well. At 50, he would be by far the youngest member. Only Clarence Thomas, 57, would be close, while all the rest are over 65, and John Paul Stevens is 85. Not since the mid-1980s has a Justice had such young children. "Frankly, they'll help keep him nimble because you get exposed to new concepts and new ideas, like the Internet," says Carter Phillips, another veteran of the Supreme Court bar. "Whatever the big developments are going to be, his kids are going to be right there." Many of the cases confronting...
...this point, Parkfield's seismic history seems suggestive. For more than a century, the area just south of the drill site produced magnitude-6 earthquakes on a roughly 22-year cycle--or so it seemed in the mid-1980s, when a USGS team threw a net of instruments over the area, hoping to catch the next iteration. The last quake occurred in 1966, so scientists figured the next would come around 1988. Instead, the 1966 quake was followed by a 38-year pause. Some speculate that another earthquake, which occurred on a nearby thrust fault in 1983, reset the seismic...
...graduate student at the University of Southern California in the mid-1980s, the CEO of China's third largest oil company remembers seeing Union 76 signs plastered all along America's Left Coast--emblems of California's car-crazed lifestyle. For Fu Chengyu, then a poor student from northern China, culture shock doesn't even begin to describe it. Try future shock. "Back then," he says, "China seemed like it was 100 years behind the United States...
...same approach led to continued success after Limpert left the MoMA in the mid-1980s. As vice president for development at Lincoln Center, he helped to generate a major sponsorship deal with General Motors, and his work at the New York Botanical Garden resulted in the first substantial gift dedicated to renovation and expansion of the garden’s buildings...