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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Conservative Club initially announced that it would hire cadets the Navy's Reserve Officer Training Corps to guarantee the safety of the audience. The intention was to create tension at the site of the speech and give the impression that radicals were massing to "attack...
Does the same genetic defect play a role in all manic depression? Not necessarily. Two studies also published in last week's Nature revealed no link between the chromosome 11 site and manic depression in six non-Amish families prone to the disease. Still, these findings do not undermine the important discovery of a genetic basis for the ailment. Instead, observes NIMH Psychiatrist Sevilla Detera-Wadleigh, who led one of the other studies, they suggest that more than one gene may be involved in manic depression...
Some organizations have even begun to offer massage as a paid employee perk-up. At Vanderbilt University in Nashville, addled workers can get on-site soothing. At Merrill Lynch's Manhattan headquarters, a therapist is on staff. Steve Herfield, president of Manhattan Temporaries, pays for up to two minimassages a week for each of his twelve employees. "Some were skeptical at first," he recalls. "Now they'd like it every day. It's a real break and a real lift." Not always, however. Some therapists report that staffers occasionally are left so relaxed that they nod off at their desks...
...dual offer Harvard has made on the DeWolfe Street parking lot and rectory building owned by St. Paul's Church is a misleading and irresponsible proposal. Under the bid, the University would pay either $4 million for the entire site or $3 million if St. Paul's required Harvard to carry out plans to include low income housing on the site. Under the plans, Harvard would rent the rectory building for use as low-income housing to St. Paul's at $5000 a year for 30 years...
Other displays of Gorbachev's new style were evident. In Geneva, Soviet negotiators surprised their U.S. counterparts by offering for the first time to permit on-site inspection of arsenals of chemical weapons. Soviet television carried a frank documentary of last spring's Chernobyl nuclear disaster that showed villagers being evacuated and was sharply critical of the way the disaster was handled...