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Many freshman dorms across campus, where the most of the 500 guests will be staying, held votes this week to decide whether to allow the homosexual students to sleep in their premises. The guests represent approximately 60 Northeast colleges, including Harvard...

Author: By Arthur Rublin, | Title: Brown Debates Housing Gay Guests | 3/1/1986 | See Source »

From the slums of Calcutta, the Pope journeyed northeast to the scenic hills of Shillong, where 19th century missionaries found ready converts among the territory's tribes. Some 100,000 people attended a Mass and, to the Pontiff's obvious delight, members of the Konyak tribe danced and brandished their daos, the flat-ended machetes that until 1967 were used by the clan to behead enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India a Low-Key Papal Pilgrimage | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...pound booster, composed of two solid-fuel rocket motors, was believed to be in an area 18 miles northeast of the launch site, where parts of the shuttle's crew compartment, one of its two solid fuel rocket boosters and other debris have been reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shuttle Search Continues Using Radar Techniques | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...they listened over their shortwave radios, with a battle raging sporadically around them, the British civilians stranded in Aden, the capital of South Yemen, could hardly believe their ears. A BBC announcer in London told them to assemble in "the northeast sector of the Soviet-embassy compound, repeat the Soviet-embassy compound, from which you will be taken to the beaches for evacuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Yemen Apocalypse Now In Aden | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...million or more people by the year 2000) whose population will increase the fastest will be in Florida, California, Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. Nevertheless, the Snowbelt-to-Sunbelt stampede is slowing. Says Lyle Spatz, of the U.S. Census Bureau: "It's leveling off and even shifting in the Northeast. New England has shifted its economy and attracted people." The future will remain less than cheery around the Great Lakes and in some parts of the Midwest: Cleveland is expected to lead large metropolitan areas with an 8.2% population loss, and St. Louis, which was ranked tenth among urban areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Westward Ho | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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