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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is not the slightest bit surprising. Our culture has produced these ideas," he says. "If you told me to make up a story of abduction, I'd think of the B-movies from the '50s with aliens that have big eyes and silvery colored skin who fly around in saucers...

Author: By Stephanie P. Wexler, | Title: Med School's John Mack Believes in Wicked Aliens | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

Shocked, because there were no indications, not even the slightest hints, to regular Mass. Hall watchers, that Green wasn't enjoying his job, or that others were dissatisfield with the job he was doing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remembering Things Past | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

Shocked, because there were no indications, not even the slightest hints, to regular Mass. Hall watchers, that Green wasn't enjoying his job, or that others were dissatisfied with the job he was doing. Word around the University now is that Green told President Neil L. Rudenstine in January that he wanted out. But as late as the end of last year, the Provost was rearranging the furniture in his office to make it look better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green's Departure Is A Loss and a Mystery | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...went on, "Though I am accused of something, I cannot recall the slightest offense that might be charged against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: None Dare Call It Kafkaesque | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...penalty to 52 federal offenses, including the attempted assassination of the President; today, only a drug-related killing is a capital crime. Those on the front lines are appalled. "I know of no law-enforcement professional who believes the ((new)) death-penalty provisions would affect public safety in the slightest," says Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan's respected district attorney. Equally troublesome, declared Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, the death penalty "remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice and mistake." According to a 1987 Stanford University survey, at least 23 Americans have been wrongly executed in the 20th century. Just since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Frying Them Isn't the Answer | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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