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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel's population are Sephardim. Economic inequities mirror the prejudice. Explains Daniel Shimshoni, director of Israel's neighborhood rehabilitation program: "Most of the residents in depressed neighborhoods, or their parents, came from Middle Eastern or African countries. Of the lower income groups, those of Asian and African origin form the majority...
...oldest specimen in the current Vatican exhibit is a Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum that dates from the late 8th century and establishes regulations, worthy of the Pentagon, for the preparation and maintenance of ecclesiastical documents. But the exact origin of the Vatican Archives is unknown. As early as 303 Emperor Diocletian decreed that everything accumulated until that time be destroyed. In 410 the Visigoths stormed Rome, and the city burned for three days. The Vandals sacked it in 455, the Saracens...
...years now, and archivists still speak with awe of Cardinal Josephus Garampi, who managed, before his death in 1772, to inscribe more than 1.5 million catalogue entries, in strictly alphabetical order, in 124 large folio volumes. But since the millions of documents were all arranged by their places of origin rather than by subject matter, the problems of cross-indexing stretch toward infinity. And the staff numbers only 30. "If this were Germany," sighs one archivist, "we would have at least...
Colantuono and four other GSA members will attend today's Faculty Council meeting to present a legal brief and to argue for adoption of the non-discrimination policy, which would be similar to the University's official policies against discrimination on the basis of sex, race, creed, and national origin...
...Also in 1985, the shuttle is slated to get the Galileo spacecraft on its way: an unmanned package of instruments that will drop a probe into the atmosphere of Jupiter in search of organic molecules, the building blocks of life. Adds Jastrow: "The two great cosmic mysteries are the origin of the universe and the origin of life. The shuttle will give us a chance to probe both...