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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anyone on the council who bothered to look could have seen, as clear as day, why ROTC cannot return as an extracurricular activity. Anyone who looked a little further could have seen sound reasons why the current University policy exists...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: History's Lessons | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

...Discipline" is reminiscent of the Eurythmics' sound, with a snapping drum machine and atonal keyboard arpeggios; Askew does her best Annie Lennox imitation, but for some reason Jackson interrupts midway through with a completely out-of-place, easy-listening R&B style verse...

Author: By Glenn Slater, | Title: Great Balls of Fire | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

...Note: We have obligations as human beings to not injure one another. A sound principle in general, and convenient for ensuring the perpetuity of the event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survival of the Fittest | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

...mere idea that the Navy is drafting marine mammals has created a furor. A group of 15 organizations concerned with animal welfare has filed a lawsuit against the Government, charging that moving the dolphins from their homes in warm southern waters to the chilly Puget Sound will endanger the animals. Moreover, one of their former trainers asserts that the Navy has abused the dolphins. Still other critics question the wisdom of entrusting the security of the nation's underwater nuclear arsenal to animals, however clever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: These Guards Just Love Fish | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

According to people once involved in military dolphin projects, the animals will be used in Puget Sound in much the same way as they were in Viet Nam. One probable difference is that the dolphins will simply mark the location of the intruder or ensnare swimmers through some means less brutal than darts. Unless war breaks out, underwater saboteurs at the Trident base are more likely to be antinuclear protesters or animal-rights activists than enemy agents. That raises the bizarre possibility that dolphins might help the Navy arrest dolphin lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: These Guards Just Love Fish | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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