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But there is a history. The Harvard athletic facilities are for use by students, staff, faculty and their families. For years, parents have brought their families. For years, parents have brought their babies, securely strapped into strollers, to wait by the pool while mom, dad and older siblings went swimming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pool Policy | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

It seemed a small thing, hardly ground for arrest. For two weeks a tiny group of Bulgarian environmentalists called Ecoglasnost manned a table in a Sofia park to gather signatures on a petition calling for public debate on two controversial river-diversion schemes. They had collected nearly 7,000 names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Three Holdouts Against Change | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Shuttle buses are a convenient way to move large numbers of people to a common destination. It makes sense to operate a shuttle from the Quad to the Science Center at five minutes to ten. It makes less sense to run an all-night shuttle service for a few scattered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How High a Priority? | 10/31/1989 | See Source »

The well-drilled 585-man fire department proved all but useless: broken mains left the city without water. Scattered blazes soon converged into fire storms that gobbled up huge swaths of the city. The inferno spread despite desperate attempts to create firebreaks by dynamiting whole blocks of homes and businesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First The Shaking, Then the Flames | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Much of that gold turned out to be priceless jewelry draped around the skeleton of a young princess named Yabahya, tentatively identified as the daughter of one of Assyria's most renowned and feared kings, Sargon II. Nearby, still more jewelry and gold ornaments were piled. Mingled with the dried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Golden Treasures of Nimrud | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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