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Unlike the other first-year residences,Greenough feels much like a "typical" collegedorm. Long narrow hallways, tiny boxy rooms, andcommunal bathrooms are the norm here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John F. Kennedy Slept Here; Soon You Will Too | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...American to be launched on a Russian rocket Mar. 14. "I've got three sons and a wife and two cats, and I like them all and I miss them." Unfortunately, he's got another month to go. One Skylab astronaut, Edward Gibson, today radioed up some moral support: "Norm, keep on trucking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN I COME DOWN NOW? | 6/6/1995 | See Source »

...Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union. We saw Father rarely, during brief furloughs and on medical leaves after he was wounded, the first time in 1942, then a year later at Kursk, during the largest tank battle of the war. We missed him, but that was the norm for every family I knew. The last time we had seen Father was in late April 1945, when he unexpectedly appeared for a six-hour visit, in filthy camouflage battle dress, his arm still bandaged from an old, oozing wound. He told Mother it was time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLIGHT TO FREEDOM | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...would like to thank them for their concern, and secondly, I'd like to say they have nothing to be worried about. Recently I underwent a complete medical checkup. The results were made known to the Russian press. The specialists did not uncover any noticeable deviations from the norm. There are fluctuations, of course, in my blood pressure, but the doctors and I are watching this. In general, I feel fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADING FOR THE SUMMIT: BORIS YELTSIN | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

...degrees, it is being awarded with greater frequency and being required of greater numbers of applicants to positions in industry, education and academia. The recent hiring of two new Assistant Deans of Freshmen, both with Ph.D.s, points to the pervasive standard for hiring practices which is fast becoming the norm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: End the FAS Ph.D. Monopoly | 5/3/1995 | See Source »

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