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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confusion resulted when the ball went out of bounds off one of the Brown players. As one referee signaled Harvard throw-in, Scalise turned around to signal some of his substitutes into the game. But the other official ruled play on, and rumor has it that Brown's flashy forward Frances Fusco scored from the right side of the penalty area. No matter how it happened, it went into the scorer's book as a goal, and a win, for the Bruins...

Author: By Mike Bass, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Booters Finish Third at Ivies | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

Saturday marked the return of Brian Buckley to Crimson signal-calling duties, and though the performance was not his best, the senior's mere presence in the lineup makes Harvard a very different football team from the one that lost two straight...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Gridders Stay Alive With 17-16 Win Over Brown | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

That many communities have come out in favor of the proposition is a signal of its appeal. But even its backers point to regressive and potentially dangerous flaws. The regressive-tax haters who designed Proposition 2 1/2 wanted to warn the legislature. But to many municipal officials, its passage represents a death sentence...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Proposition 2 1/2 And All That... | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...destroyed," he says. The cat research has shown that REM causes the brain to create the dream and not vice-versa, Hobson says. "Obviously, we cannot tell if a cat is actually dreaming, but by inserting a microscopic electrode into a cat's brain, we can measure the electrical signal as it passes along a single nerve cell--the impulse in the eye fires before the impulse in the brain." Hobson adds that because all mammals have roughly the same brain structure, it is fair to assume the basic REM process works the same in humans and cats...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Sweet Dreams | 10/31/1980 | See Source »

...have a society which is built on science and technology and which uses science in every one of the interstices of national life, and in which the public, the executive, the legislative and the judiciary have very little understanding of what science is about. That is a clear disaster signal. It has to be suicidal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Gift for Vividness | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

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