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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last Saturday, RPI's rock'em-sock'em strategy almost worked. The Engineers had a 3-1 lead with less than 12 minutes left in the third period...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Hockey Purist's Dream | 3/10/1989 | See Source »

...courtordered system in which parents have no input in choosing their children's school, Alves and Willie proposed "controlled choice," a plan which allows parents to select their children's schools so long as each school remains desegregated. Such a plan has been successfully implemented in Cambridge and Little Rock...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Education Not Segregation | 3/9/1989 | See Source »

Allison doesn't like that idea at all. For her, adventures are what happen when you make a mistake. She has been climbing, she says precisely, "for 11 1/2 years." She is a gifted rock climber. At extreme altitude, she is an aerobic marvel, renowned for climbing at unusual speed. She and the rest used bottled oxygen much of the time because of the dangers of altitude sickness. A reporter with some experience at altitude asks whether she felt sluggish and slow-thinking when she wasn't using oxygen. This is what he remembers and what virtually all climbers report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climbing Mount Everest: What It Takes To Reach the Summit | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

From a distance, the church looks like a huge granite amphitheater, a scaled-down version of Chicago's McCormick Place. The first half-hour of the weekend service is devoted to such attractions as Christian rock music, drama and multimedia slide shows. Parishioners sit in posh theater seats rather than pews. When pastor Bill Hybels, 37, finally appears on the stage wearing a natty business suit and button-down collar, his message sounds more entrepreneurial than churchy. Preaching from a Plexiglas lectern, he talks about "taking risks" to be Christians and the "user value" of doctrinal studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full House at Willow Creek | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...improve the Navajos' economy by demanding better prices for the tribe's oil, coal and natural-gas reserves. Along the way, say his critics, the Chairman spent tribal funds profusely. He reportedly hired a public relations firm for $1.5 million. He had his office in Window Rock, Ariz., remodeled for $600,000, of which $4,800 alone went to pay for carved office doors. He chartered a jet for more than $18,000 to take him and his family to the 1988 Orange Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letting Down the Tribe | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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