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...variety of legal schemes to stalemate the plant since 1976. They have vivid interpretations of Weiss's recommendation. According to Brookline selectman Zvi Sesling, Weiss was saying that "Harvard can do something that nobody else can do--legally kill four people." According to Louis Horwitz, chairman of the seven-year-old Neighborhood Organizations Mobilized Against the Total Energy Plant (NOMATEP), "That's sick. I don't know of any country other than Nazi Germany that is able to put a price on human life." And according to Brookline lawyer Daniel G. Partan, "When stripped of its technicalities, the bold fact...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: The MATEP Shuffle | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

...skit at the Douglas Elementary School in Columbus, a character named Uncle Harry, played by an adult leader, grosses out the second grade by putting some Big-Bearish moves on his seven-year-old niece Sally, with whom he is baby-sitting in front of the TV on Saturday morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Facing Up to Sex Abuse | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...allowance is only 50? a week, what is a seven-year-old to do when he wants a $20 toy or a $ 125 toy? Well, he can always walk into the store and say, "Charge it." Buffums, a Southern California department-store chain with 15 outlets, now offers children's charge accounts. The store requires no minimum age or source of income. The precocious applicant need only find a parent or guardian with a good credit rating to co-sign the application and guarantee any debts. The Buffums card is identical to ones the store issues to adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Credit for Kiddies | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...Compaq, may be less affected by the new IBM products. Houston-based Compaq has successfully marketed a portable version of the desktop PC and just introduced a high-speed office model called the DeskPro. Apple meanwhile has been enjoying rapid sales of the updated version of the seven-year-old Apple II called the He, while 90,000 Macintoshes have been shipped since it was introduced seven months ago. As both the Compaq portable and the Apple machines are significantly less expensive than the new IBM computers, they are not expected to feel much direct pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Giant Flexes Its Muscles | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...prosecutors are investigating reports of child molesting in nine state-supported and private facilities. In California, preliminary hearings got under way in the case of a private Manhattan Beach preschool that was shut down last November; seven teachers were indicted on 207 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse. The prosecutor charged last week that one of the defendants drugged a seven-year-old boy to make him sexually compliant. Such horrific tales are becoming depressingly familiar. Said Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola: "This kind of child abuse has been going on for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Abuse: Preying on Preschoolers | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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