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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mate's neck. Soon there was a new egg in the roost. At the zoo, Bird Curator Arthur Risser and his crew eagerly monitored the incubation. Two weeks ago, one egg showed signs of movement. Subsequently, a chick managed to peck a peanut-size hole in the shell. Like mother condors in the wild, the zoo staffers tapped on the eggshell. When the chick's strength seemed almost sapped from its struggle to free itself, Keeper Cyndi Kuehler cut an opening to let the chick emerge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: New Day of the Condors | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...gasoline prices by 30 per gal., competitors snickered. After all, 25% of drivers buy gasoline on credit. But when Arco's volume started zooming upward, the competition quickly retaliated. Exxon and Amoco, two of the nation's largest marketers, announced a discount-for-cash policy. And Shell counterattacked by accepting credit cards from Arco holders and converting them into Shell customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Service-Station Slugfest | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...religious war, is very professional and completely winning. Praise must go as well to Michael Allio, Christopher Moore and Deborah Wasser. But without a doubt, the big surprise in this cast is Kattrin, played by the lovely Brigit Fasolino. Her face is just right--a picture of peace, shell-shocked, ravaged, yet innocently eerie. In the very best production of this work, the character of Kattrin has been likened to Aristophanes' character Peace, who, though raped and tortured by war, remains virtuous and beautiful. Fasolino's Kattrin speaks volumes in her muteness and screams and silent scream at the close...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: A Courageous Attempt | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

Described by Princeton's Dean of Student Affairs Anderson Brown as "totally inappropriate the article, entitled "Impressing and Sleeping with Brook included references to sex and rape. The article featured a list of seven recommended ways to get to sleep with "Brook Shell...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Parody Costs Two Princeton Editors Jobs | 4/6/1983 | See Source »

...that it had paid $45 million for the oil. The ship then sailed for Europe but sank mysteriously in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal on Jan. 17,1980. The trouble was that the cargo it had left in Durban had actually been owned all along by the Shell International trading company, and the Salem was supposed to have been carrying it to the Italian port of Genoa. As soon as it became known that the Salem's cargo had in effect been sold twice, there were allegations that the tanker had been scuttled to hide that fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Shaken Up | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

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