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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While no such drastic action is contemplated byHarvard, administration officals, such as Dean ofFreshman Henry C. Moses, say they will actstrenuously to protect individual students' rightto be free from coercion...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: Area Schools Fear Campus Proselytizing | 10/29/1987 | See Source »

Yozell said she hoped that there would now beincreased efforts to protect other members of theCDH, such as Reynaldo Blanco, one of the bestknown of the CDH officials. The organizationconceals the names of many of its volunteers fortheir protection. The efforts of internationalhuman rights groups to protest the death of Anayawill to some extent protect Blanco, because thegovernment will know that they are being watched,she said

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: CASA Protests Killing Of Rights Group Leader | 10/28/1987 | See Source »

...mimic the behavior of hormones and other organic substances. The lone winner in medicine was Susumu Tonegawa, 48, a Japanese-born molecular biologist at M.I.T. His contribution: showing how a handful of genes in a small number of immune cells turn out a staggering variety of antibodies to protect the body against disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inspiration and Originality: superconductors, molecules and gene theory | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...lower speed limits now prohibit those." Today's jeeps, like the earlier dragsters, can be souped up with a variety of gizmos, including "lift kits" (a set of springs that raises the chassis higher off the ground), running boards to help passengers climb into the elevated cabs, fog lights, protective body molding, and tubular steel grates to protect the grille from imaginary sagebrush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Jeep Chic Shifts into High Four-wheelers are no longer just for macho men | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...because each suggested powers beyond personal control: unhinged economic forces, irrational foreign crises, undetected illness. The stock market went into a panicked free fall. Iran launched a Chinese-made missile from Iraqi territory that hit a Kuwaiti tanker that was flying the U.S. flag in the Persian Gulf to protect, in part, Japanese oil supplies. Amid this babble of conflicting national interests, any American action, however justified, promised to inflame unfathomable hatreds. And the man with the responsibility for authorizing any retaliation was shouldering a more personal but no less worrisome burden as his wife entered Bethesda Naval Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Went Right | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

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