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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ONLY A QUACK offers a quick, painless fix for a serious illness. And although we may be tempted at times to seek such expedient treatment, sound judgement tells us to forebear...

Author: By Gregory D. Rowe, | Title: Selling Your Soul to the President | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

Council Vice Chairman Elizabeth M. Touhey '86, who is charged with conducting the election, said she hopes the new nomination deadline will encourage more students to seek office...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Storm Pushes Back Council Elections | 9/28/1985 | See Source »

...PROPOSED REFERENDUM, sponsored by a local women's group and certified by the city elections commission, defines pornography as "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures or words." If approved, the ordinance would allow victims--loosely defined--to seek civil damages against the maker, seller or distributor of anything deemed sexually dehumanizing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: People's Choice | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...never be sure that he has correctly witnessed any phenomenon. His repeated attempts to view the "avalanche of simultaneous events that we call the universe" lead him to a pessimistic conclusion: "It is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spectacles Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...surrounded by a 20- sided outer shell that vaguely resembles a soccer ball. The sides consist of three identical triangles each containing three proteins on its irregular surface, and one below it. On the surface proteins, the researchers discovered, features that resemble mountaintops are actually antigens, structures that antibodies seek out and attach themselves to when attacking the virus. A "canyon" snakes between these mountaintops and is believed by scientists to be shaped specifically to fit over projections, or receptors, on the surface of human cells. The virus may use this canyon to attach itself to a receptor, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Viral Map: First step to a cure for colds | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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