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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried, while briefly out of prison, to rob and knife a 72-year-old half-blind man. He has also stabbed a prison guard, smashed a lead pipe into another guard's skull, set his cell on fire seven times, choked a secretary, battered a reformatory teacher with a nail-studded club, tried to blow up a truck, sodomized inmates, beat up a psychiatrist and mailed a death threat to Ronald Reagan. Bosket claims to have committed 2,000 crimes by the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Won't Kill, I'll Just Maim | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...said had confirmed the heat readings recorded previously by Pons and Fleischmann. Fusion fever was rising now. Georgia Tech said on the same day that its jean-clad researchers had detected neutrons. Maddeningly, no one seemed to be looking for both heat and neutrons in a single experiment, to nail down whether fusion was in fact occurring. But Pons showed no doubt on April 12 as he addressed 7,000 members of the American Chemical Society, who had crowded into a basketball arena in Dallas. When he was questioned, it became clear that his paper was sketchy because his technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Chronology of Nuclear Confusion | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...bottom of the eighth, but Wambach threw out the potential tying run with a perfect throw to Co-Captain and catcher Nancy Prior. Prior collided with the Bear runner and remarkably held onto the ball. The game was effectively over. Harvard once again had pulled out a nail-biter...

Author: By Jon Unger, | Title: Title Hunt: Batswomen Split With Bears | 5/5/1989 | See Source »

Bush, Yale Class of 1948, may have fought tooth and nail last November to keep the Harvard influence out of the White House, but today he will open the front door to an entire Crimson contingent...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Mr. Cleary Goes To Washington | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

Harvard Coach Alex Nahigian called on righthander Zach Hope to nail the third out, but a Tim Rogers single followed by a Tom Dutzer three-base hit cushioned the Crusader lead...

Author: By Dan Breiner, | Title: Batsmen Bow in Ninth, 6-4 | 4/13/1989 | See Source »

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