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...schoolchildren, gathered across the street waiting for their parents to meet them, said they learned of these reports both from the news and from word of mouth...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Local Students Sound Off on New Kids | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...which fits with the scraggly beard, the sneakers and the bush hat. But when a volunteer presents some fossils he has gathered, Horner handles them attentively. Then he peers from under his domed brow, and through a veil of smoke rising from the cigarette at the corner of his mouth, he inquires, "What else did you find out there?" There is about him something of the disguised intensity of a gold prospector. He smokes each cigarette down to the filter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACK HORNER; Head Man In the Boneyard | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

P.L.O. The failure of the U.S. and Egypt to prod Israel toward a resolution of the almost three-year-old uprising in the occupied territories has pushed the Palestine Liberation Organization tighter into Iraq's embrace. Frustrated Palestinians regard Saddam as the one man willing to do more than mouth empty words for their cause; many have come to regard him as a potential savior. Chairman Yasser Arafat may feel he has little choice but to back Saddam. Still, Arafat will have a tough time explaining his rejection of last week's pan-Arab resolution to his benefactors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Me And My Brother Against My Cousin | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...experiment, participants wore an apparatus that placed the mouth of a tube close to one eye. They heard a beep lasting for a half-second, during which the tube blew a puff of oxygen into the eye, making them blink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eye Test May Help Diagnose Alzheimer's | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

...loved it, paid his own way with scholarship help for two more years, and today speaks fluent Norwegian as one of the teachers. He is speaking with difficulty just now because a beginning class has covered him with paper tags: TENNER on his teeth, EN MUNN on his mouth, EN NESE on his nose and so on. He is a huge, powerfully built youth, amiably playing the gawk for his adoring students. But he is serious as he tells his plans: St. Olaf College in the fall and eventually teaching English and Norwegian in Norway. "I have so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: World Without Walls | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

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