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Through his leadership, Chafin transformed a force filled with union antipathy toward his predecessor and stymied by low morale into an efficient unit capable of making Harvard secure in its unique urban setting. Crime statistics indicate that the University is a safer place now than it was five years...
...spur us into taking action that would check such Soviet atrocities--another massacre of 269 innocent individuals? Only in this way will the Soviet Union realize it can't shatter any and all human rights institutions with impunity. Let's stand up to this bully and make our schoolyard safer for all Christopher...
...already stringent restrictions on the use of human fetuses for research purposes. A similar measure was passed by the House last year but defeated in the Senate. Congressman Henry Waxman, who opposes the amendment, argues that "fetal research saves lives, prevents or cures chronic diseases and makes pregnancy safer. As a result of such work, reductions in infant mortality and treatments for diabetes, as well as for brain disorders, are on the horizon...
...associated with dioxin. Dow says that the get-together was an attempt to police the industry from within and coordinate methods to keep the level of dioxin in Agent Orange below the danger point. In 1970 Dow recommended to then Defense Secretary Melvin Laird that the Government set a safer maximum level of dioxin content in Agent Orange...
...feelings of inadequacy. "I really didn't feel back then I had too much to show," he says. "What would I do up on a stage? The only thing was to try and conjure up a figure to do the performance for me because I felt I was much safer playing roles. I was writing plays for these people, minimusicals." This, in turn, took on its own dark corollaries, with some assistance from various controlled substances. "I found," Bowie says, "that I was adopting the characters offstage. And then I found that I was living like the character, that...