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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Observers said that despite his reversal, White's qualifications were never in question...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: An Academic Power Struggle in Maryland | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

When so much of the national debate over higher education concerns which books we should read, it's hard not to think of this question as a crucial one. In our minds, the key issue becomes the assigned book--as if it were a selfsufficient entity--and not the way we read and think about...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: I Can't Stand That Attitude | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

...phrase is clearly meant to catch the attention of the majority in Cambridge who are pro-choice on the abortion issue," said Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf, who opposes the proposition, adding, "The scam is fully in keeping with the ballot question itself...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Prop 1-2-3 Foes Blast 'Misleading' Slogan | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

...tragic relationships between humans and nature in several books, including Silent Partners, which considers the implications of language experiments with apes. For this week's article Linden spent ten days crisscrossing the region by air, water and land to assess the Amazon's chances for survival. Says Linden: "The question is whether the concern everyone now has about the environment will translate into meaningful action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Sep 18 1989 | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

Washington correspondent Dick Thompson pursued that question by joining a congressional fact-finding mission to the Amazon. The local contingent of our jungle team, Rio de Janeiro bureau chief Laura Lopez and reporter John Maier, made its own treks through the region. Maier was struck by how virtually everyone in the region, politician and peasant alike, knew that the Amazon was the subject of intense international debate. In speaking with one poor farmer near the Peruvian border, Maier reports, "As soon as I began asking questions, the farmer said to me, 'Whose side are you on, the environmentalists' or ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Sep 18 1989 | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

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