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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frisch has determined that if a woman weighs 10 to 15 percent below her normal weight, her reproductive cycle will be turned off. Doctors have even created a "fatness index," indicating the minimum amount a woman must weigh to be fertile. Women who become infertile can refer to this index to discover the weight they need to regain fertility, assuming nothing else is wrong, Frisch says...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: The Extra Benefits of Exercise | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

Special Concentrations is intended to be a "safety valve" for "students whose interests would not otherwise be accommodated in the normal framework" of the college, says Professor of Applied Mathematics Anthony G. Oettinger, chairman of the Standing Committee on Special Concentrations. "It's an option available to students who have exhausted all the options," says Special Concentrations Director and Head Tutor Georgene B. Herschbach...

Author: By Anne F. Palmer, | Title: The Road Less Traveled By | 3/2/1988 | See Source »

...changed his race via countless operations on his face, singing "I'm looking at the man in the mirror/...I'm gonna make a change.." completely seriously. Not only is Michael Jackson a semi-human entity who makes the headlines of the Weekly World News seem downright normal; he is a hero for the youth of America. Think about it. A hero for the children of our country. The man who sleeps in an oxygen tent with monkey and the carcass of the Elephant...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Grammy and Grandpa | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...been Quadded? What's it like up there? What are the people like up there?" people often ask me. I feel as though I've been exiled to the ozone layer. I've been waiting for someone to ask if Quadlings actually lived and breathed like normal Harvard students...

Author: By William Pao, | Title: Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...normal and also snakebit, however, is a bit much. Injuries hit the U.S. men hard, and all but wiped out the women's team. Veteran Doug Lewis, who cracked a collarbone when a Soviet coach who was taking pictures blundered into his path during a ski test a few weeks ago, creaked to 32nd place in the downhill. A.J. Kitt and Jeff Olson, a couple of youngsters still getting used to the World Cup circuit, did respectably to finish 26th and 28th. No U.S. male skier survived the combined. Among the women, early-season injuries knocked out Star Tamara McKinney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downhill Skiing: Three, Two, One . . . Airborne! | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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