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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the past few days, several minority students have received harassing telephone calls in their rooms, said John M. Robinson, Brown's dean of student life. In addition, the parents of one student were called late at night and told their son was a "nigger-lover," Robinson said...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Brown Harassment Continues | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...group has pledged to support incumbents Francis H. Duehay '55 and Alice K. Wolf; city Democratic Committee chair Esther Hanig; former School Committee members Rena Leib; and past candidates Jonathan Myers, Kenneth E. Reeves '72, Renae Scott and John St. George...

Author: By Steve Hopchick, | Title: Civic Group Backs Candidates | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...past five years much of this mathematical logic has been incorporated into tiny, special-purpose computer chips. Graphics calculations that used to require a $250,000 bank of hardware can now be performed by a single plug-in board. In just the past year the cost of an entry-level 3-D computer has fallen by nearly 70%, to less than $16,000. Within the next five to eight years, predicts Jim Clark, chairman of Silicon Graphics, the leading manufacturer of 3-D workstations, "we'll see the kind of images Tin Toy represents on an ordinary personal computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Through the 3-D Looking Glass | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

Where were you on the night of March 23? Out dancing, perhaps, or attending a PTA meeting or just sitting at home watching L.A. Law? If so, you did not realize how close you came to disaster. While you were blissfully unaware of the danger, a huge asteroid whizzed past the earth, coming closer than any other such heavenly body seen in 52 years. If the giant clump of rock -- half a mile across by one estimate -- had hit the planet, it would have packed the wallop of thousands of H-bombs and possibly killed millions of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whew! That Was Close | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...just before the explosion. The driver and a bodyguard escaped with minor injuries. But the man in the back seat was killed. He was Attorney General Roberto Garcia Alvarado, the highest-ranking government official to be slain in a war that has claimed some 70,000 lives over the past nine years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Brutal Law of The Land | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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