Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some works, like Playboy magazine, may still require safeguarding, according to the library staff. In the past, Widener workers have complained that people were cutting out pictures from Playboy issues. And although Lamont now subscribes to the magazine as well, a note on the shelf where it is supposed to be kept reads, "This periodical is a frequent victim of theft or damage. For current issues see the reference librarian...
...efforts of Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail Gorbachev to capture the world's attention were swept before them by one of those rare and indescribable upwellings of national spirit. Events within the Great Hall of the People, where the leaders set about mending a 30- year rift, received some note. But it was the events in Tiananmen Square, where a hunger strike by 3,000 students swelled to a demonstration by more than a million Chinese expressing the inexpressible -- a longing for freedom and prosperity -- that transfixed the eye. On Saturday, as government troops were trucked into Beijing...
...happy to note, in passing, that the majority of The Crimson's reporting on the issue was considerably more accurate. Despite its anti-ROTC editorial views, it refuted the false charge of some anti-ROTC activists that gays and lesbians in the military could be jailed solely on the basis of their sexual orientation, and reported that the UC's initial stance on ROTC reflected the views of a large majority of the student body it was created to represent, even at the peak of anti-ROTC sentiment. The Crimson's editorial on the issue, in conjunction with the numerous...
...These cases are attacks on women," says Lynn Paltrow of the A.C.L.U.'s Reproductive Freedom Project. "If states pass laws that make maternal behavior a crime against the fetus, and if the state can create prenatal police patrols for cocaine use, then where would they draw the line?" Opponents note that alcohol use, smoking and other kinds of maternal conduct have also been shown to damage fetuses. Says Paltrow: "For some women, standing on their feet all day is harmful. Will they arrest them...
...Seminary pin much of the blame for decline on long-term demographic trends. As with higher- status groups generally, the authors report, birth rates in traditional Protestant churches dropped below replacement levels in the 1960s, and future trends are alarming because of the rising average ages of members. Moreover, note Roof and McKinney, while liberal congregations never excelled at converting nonbelievers, they used to attract a steady flow of "switchers" from other churches. Social-climbing gains by high-prestige mainline churches began to dwindle in the 1960s...