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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maryland educators and lawmakers will not easily return to business as usual. Many said they are frustrated and upset that the top choice out of 100 applicants turned down the job. White, who is Black, was also expected to ease racial tensions on campus and serve as a role model for minority students...

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

Since Juan and Eva Peron came to power in 1946, the Argentine state has, because of political pressures from both business and labor, taken on the role of subsidizing a wide range of economic activities...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Can Argentina Make It Back? | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

Scientists are concerned that the destruction of the Amazon could lead to climatic chaos. Because of the huge volume of clouds it generates, the Amazon system plays a major role in the way the sun's heat is distributed around the globe. Any disturbance of this process could produce far-reaching, unpredictable effects. Moreover, the Amazon region stores at least 75 billion tons of carbon in its trees, which when burned spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Since the air is already dangerously overburdened by carbon dioxide from the cars and factories of industrial nations, the torching of the Amazon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Playing with Fire | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

COOKIE. English teenager Emily Lloyd brings an acute ear and a fetching presence to her role as a Brooklyn punkster in this comedy about a Mafia don (Peter Falk) with a score to settle and a wayward daughter to raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 18, 1989 | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...their lives rather than strive for a meaningful existence. In McAfee's case, Judge Johnson has exonerated anyone who helps the patient carry out his plan. John Banja, a professor of medical ethics at Emory University, notes that hospitals have no clear mandate for "treatment discontinuance," and the role of doctors and nurses in these affairs remains murky. However, adds Banja, "this is a clear- cut case of a rational adult. The decision lets McAfee decide if his life is meaningful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Death Wish | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

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