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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Bakker's evidence, dinosaurs also varied in intellectual capacity, cared for their young and are most closely related to modern-day birds--not reptiles, as has been traditionally thought...

Author: By Alison D. Morantz, | Title: Expert Says Dinosaurs Deserve Better Image | 11/10/1988 | See Source »

...death figure of 600 would be China's highest since July 28, 1976, when 242,000 people were killed in the northeast China city of Tangshan in the nation's worst natural disaster in modern times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Earthquake Kills Over 900 in China | 11/9/1988 | See Source »

...programs. When asked how he could justify that vote to poor families, he responded: "They didn't ask me those questions." His civil rights rating is among the lowest in the Senate. In the area of foreign policy, he has said that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is merely a modern-day Stalin. He is unqualified for the vice presidency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis for President | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...stardom. Is Lange's part-time job as exemplary actress a hobby, as football is for Bo Jackson? If so, it can be no less punishing or rewarding, because Lange -- any actress, really, in today's Streepstakes -- must find the core of feminism, of flinty self-fulfillment, in a modern movie role. No wimpering-wife parts, thank you. Just Joan of Arc in Levi's, with Silkwood strength and Flo-Jo flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Part-Time All-American: FAR NORTH & EVERYBODY'S ALL AMERICAN | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...legacy to her daughter." She can seize control of her own life and still stand by her man. Gavin may have embodied, as the film suggests, "everything that the South wanted to believe about itself." But as she matures in this role, Lange comes close to embodying everything a modern woman hopes to see in the mirror of her hard- earned self-esteem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Part-Time All-American: FAR NORTH & EVERYBODY'S ALL AMERICAN | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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