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...reasonable alternative to forcing parents to shell out $150 to $250 per night is for Harvard to make vacant dormitory rooms available to parents for a small fee, as many colleges around the country do and as Harvard does for alumni returning for their reunions...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, | Title: Champagne Parties on Beer Budgets | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...marine biologists, the barrier reef that stretches 242 km (150 miles) along the coast of Belize is one of the seven underwater wonders of the world, a diver's paradise replete with about 45 kinds of coral and hundreds of species of fish. But by the mid-1980s, fishermen, shell collectors, tourists, construction and pollution were endangering the reef's fragile ecosystem. Today, thanks to a two-year-long campaign headed by Janet Patricia Gibson, 37, a Belizean botanist and zoologist, 13 sq. km (5 sq. mi.) of the reef have been set aside as the Hol Chan (Mayan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Earth Day Defenders of the Planet | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

Until those demonstrations, there had been little protest against the hard- shell moral conservatism that has dominated Cincinnati for 30 years. The Queen City was a spawning ground for the national antiabortion movement and is the headquarters for the National Coalition Against Pornography. It has managed to purge from its streets the sex shops, peep shows, X-rated films and nude-dancing clubs that mar many major cities. Cincinnati has banned or otherwise hounded out of town the musical Oh! Calcutta! and such films as Vixen, Last Tango in Paris and The Last Temptation of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eruptions in The Heartland: BATTLING BLUENOSES | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

This Monday we were called upon to shell out $489 billion in individual taxes. The estimated total cost to taxpayers of the savings and loan bailout is now up to $500 billion, and counting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Roto-Rooter Down-the-Drain Trophy | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...casting claim it is part of a pipeline for an Iraqi petrochemical plant. But defense experts say the casting may be the cannon's barrel, which would be 131 ft. long with a 39-in. bore, weigh 140 tons and be capable of firing a 1-to-3- ton shell up to 900 miles -- within range of most Middle East capitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Saddam Tries Again | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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