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...girl." With the body of a girl and the face of a thirty-year-old, Ms. Collins has demonstrated only that she is a biological oddity (or the product of a lot of surgery and Jane Fonda classes). The great majority of women in her age range, however, do possess faces and bodies which have marked the passage of time. The media hype surrounding Ms. Collins and others like her only intensifies an unpleasant pressure on the mature woman to try desperately to reverse the natural process of aging--if she wants to have any chance whatsoever of remaining attractive...
...research with pigeons, Herrnstein ponders such questions as: What does a simpleminded animal, like a pigeon possess to distinguish between a tree and a person that a complicated machine, like a computer, does not? What secret of classification is mother nature hiding and, if found, could we apply that discovery to create computers that could detect the difference between addresses in a post office...
...departing Libyans had left time bombs or booby traps behind, police used a remote-controlled shotgun to blast open a rear door of the building. Searchers crawled through the Victorian sewers beneath the square to make sure that the Libyans had not disposed of gelignite they were thought to possess by flushing it down a toilet. By nightfall, all 70 rooms in the embassy had been examined and no explosives found. Detectives speculated that the murder weapon and any unused ammunition for it had been removed by the departing Libyans in diplomatic bags, which under the Vienna Convention...
...considerable degree pertains today. In announcing the test, the PRC proclaimed that it was developing atomic weapons for defensive purposes only and that it would never be the first to use such weapons nor would it ever use, or even threaten to use, them against nations which did not possess them...
Various moderate student leaders are now calling for a "moratorium" on the strike. Such a moratorium, regardless of what its proponents say, would amount to calling off the strike entirely. The strike is the only solid asset that students interested in bringing about real changes at Harvard possess, and should not be discarded until those real changes have been...