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...most people familiar with the history of the Q-Rac will readily admit, problems at the modern building--which could easily be mistaken for a chic health and racquet club--are nothing new. In fact, officials say, some problems were expected, including cracks in the interior concrete walls that are common in all new buildings during the first few years of "settling...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: What's Wrong With the Q-Rac? | 9/25/1982 | See Source »

...Israelis have destroyed all possibility for a peaceful relationship with Lebanon. Despite the trouble the Palestinians brought to Lebanon, the Lebanese understood their situation. If the Israelis think that by bombing civilians they can engender resentment against the Palestinians, they are grossly mistaken. They have only alienated themselves permanently from the Lebanese and everyone else who realizes the cruelty in their souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 13, 1982 | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...woman is only this summer's fashion, like Deely Bobbers and E.T., and that most women will soon tire of sweating themselves into fight ing shape. The disco beat at the local health club may begin to sound as monotonous as the old metronome; muscular aerobicians will resent being mistaken for football players; Jane Fonda will find herself another cause and let her deltoids go to flab. Throughout history, women have been alternately starved and stuffed, and no one can guarantee that next year's body heroine won't be Dolly Parton. But to imagine this is to ignore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Ideal Of Beauty | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...might be a case of women's liberation or mistaken sexual identity or simple adolescent wanderlust. Whatever, the fact is that not since the turn of the century have bald eagles nested in Massachusetts, and there is no sign they soon will. In June, two six-week-old eaglets from Michigan's Upper Peninsula were imported by Massachusetts wildlife authorities as part of a program to reintroduce the species to the Bay State. When they were placed in cages atop a 21-ft. tower, all went well-at first. Ross (the purported male) took to soaring like, well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: The Lady Vanishes | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...course has the same class time and the same two credits as the original. As for the resistance to Greenberg, the dean says, "It works against, not for, shared goals of racial and social justice." Argues Roger Fisher, a faculty member normally sympathetic to minority activists: "It is a mistaken notion to think one must personally be the victim of a particular problem to be able to teach about that problem. One need not be charged with being insane to teach about the insanity defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Point of Hue | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

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