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Margaret Sanger, totally unaware that her lifelong dream had become reality, spent the day at her home outside Tucson, Ariz. Since 1914 she had battled ridicule and rigid laws, even gone to jail, all in pursuit of a simple, inexpensive contraceptive that would change women's lives--and save some as well. Now she was 80 and retired from her globe-trotting efforts. No one from G.D. Searle & Co., the drug firm, thought to call the woman who had pioneered and pushed for funding to develop the world's first birth-control pill, called Enovid-10, a synthetic combination...
...America, to many Asians, once represented ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. People whose lives were proscribed by poverty or tyranny or both at least knew there was a place where freedom was said to ring. The place's existence stirred hope in the most hopeless circumstances. And millions emigrated and found better lives there. Some religions allow the earthbound to imagine a heaven that might one day welcome them into its splendor; so, too, did America?a secular promised land?allow the world's dispossessed to believe its liberty, and its prosperity, could...
Yang, a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), was arrested after illegally returning to China using fake documents in pursuit of his mission of fighting for democracy in his home country...
...College Harry R. Lewis ’68 has done an exceptional job (Editorial, “Lewis Deserved Better”, March 18). I have been impressed with his sensitivity to the particular needs of Harvard students and to both the upside and downside of the relentless pursuit of excellence which characterizes the current student body. I think he has been an effective advocate for trying to keep student life relatively sane: sleep more, take time off, try to focus on one or just a few extracurriculars, in short, don’t go crazy. I am just...
...excuse for inaction. Students who are uncertain about war should take advantage of the resources provided by both sides of the debate to learn about the issue. If study leads to a strong opinion, that opinion should serve as the basis for future action. If not, the honest pursuit of knowledge will contribute to the national debate...