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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In fact, no one knows exactly how smoking, passive or active, causes cancer; statistics merely show that it does. Koop compares the objection with ones made by the tobacco industry after the Surgeon General's landmark 1964 report that linked smoking to lung cancer. "The evidence is as strong against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Involuntary Risk:Perils of other people's smoke | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

To obviate the "elitism" objection, a round-robin set of debates might be organized. Although Joe Kennedy and other front-runners might balk at spending time with the less prominent candidates, they ought to welcome such debates as chances to prove their superiority--that is, if they have nothing to...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Place for Idealism | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

Melendez, in trademark style, wrote his mother a 15-page letter refuting every objection she made to his summer roommates. He says, "My attitude toward that kind of living arrangement is there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever. My parents are of the opinion that it carries some kind of...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: The Life of Brian | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

The chances of authorized coed living becoming more widespread are slim, according the University official in charge of housing. "It's unlikely that [coed rooms] may ever be allowed. Such a policy may come up against considerable parental objection, and it may not be in the students' best interest," says...

Author: By Mary E. Sarotte, | Title: Coed Living at Harvard | 5/16/1986 | See Source »

Lichtman's second objection to the fast is that it is a conscience soother for pampered students who can go out for a meal and rejoice in their generosity. One counter to this point is that some of us actually do fast or even attend hunger banquets; the other being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Go Fast | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

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