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...with a midterm worth 15 per cent of the final grade, the students must retain all the material for the two tests...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: All Physics Students Remain, But Some Dislike New Format | 7/23/1976 | See Source »

...film forms an interesting contrast to the spectacularly beautiful footage of Miura's practice runs at the lower altitudes and the wildly scary stuff at the end, when he is literally in danger of sailing right off the top of the world (only a parachute allows him to retain a measure of control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: High Man Wins | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...Following the old tradition, 302 are black. All but ten are men. * Among other major Western democracies only France and Mexico retain broad, though little-used, capital-punishment laws. * Burger, who is sometimes less than happy with press coverage of legal matters, could not resist adding that journalists have a "duty to exercise the protected rights responsibly-a duty widely acknowledged but not always observed by editors and publishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Death Penalty Revived | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...individual colonies will retain their present laws and social customs, but only in "matters that shall not interfere with the Articles of this Confederation." Only one right is specifically assigned to each of the states: the "exclusive regulation and government of its internal police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Bold Plan for the Future | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...green-carpeted circular stairway). Where does that leave His Serene Highness General Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, 36, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Count of the Russian Empire, recipient of Prussia's Black Eagle decoration, Denmark's White Elephant and Sweden's Holy Seraphim? It apparently leaves him maneuvering to retain his power by appealing solely to the Empress's judgment rather than her emotions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: AuRevoir, Potemkin? | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

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