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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...connivance, they had been planted in the lab -- which soon lost its funding and closed down. And when a psychic demonstrated on a TV show that he could mentally cause pages of a book to flip, Randi sprinkled bits of Styrofoam around the opened book and asked for a repeat performance. The psychic, who had been unobtrusively exhaling through his lips to turn the pages, balked, all too aware that flying Styrofoam would literally blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Randi : Fighting Against Flimflam | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...wouldn't want to repeat the '60s. Students today feel burdened by the '60s, that they have something to live up to. The Baby Boomers are like the pig in the python, they'll be a big lump at every stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `I Thought the Movement Was Going to Be My Life.' | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Every Harvard admissions officer evenutally must answer this question, as high school seniors repeat the commonly accepted belief that Harvard professors care little about undergraduate education and transfer many of their teaching duties to graduate students serving as teaching fellows...

Author: By Charles D. Cheever, | Title: Learning How to Teach? | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...activists will appear in court again on June 23, when they are expected to repeat their plea of not guilty and set a date for a jury trial. The other two protesters, both alumni, waived their right to a jury trial and paid $65 fines for the offense...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Divestment Activists Enter Not Guilty Plea | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...growing. When Joe Biden shows passion, we prove our political acumen by pointing out that he is playing to the cameras. If a protest happens to take place during Commencement week, we prove our intelligence by terming it a publicity tactic. Each action, we all know and repeat knowingly to one another, is merely a crass effort at self-advancement...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Questioning Motives | 6/7/1988 | See Source »

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