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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, it is more unsafe for students to be locked out of houses late at night. It would increase safety if students walking home in the dark could quickly enter a dorm if the need arose. Also, due to randomization, students and their friends are more universally spread across the Houses and they need universal key card access...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Needed: Universal Key Card Access | 4/15/1997 | See Source »

This week, the Senate will begin full-session deliberations on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty which will go into effect on April 29. The CWC, which would ban the development, possession and transfer of chemical weapons and would call for their destruction--given the wide-spread support it has already garnered--will enter into force with or without American ratification. Yet, the United States has so far balked at ratifying the CWC, a treaty that President Bush helped construct in 1991 and that all living presidents and secretaries of state stand behind...

Author: By Michael M. Rosen, | Title: Ratify the Convention Now! | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

Could the Minneapolis plan be the model for a kinder, gentler managed care? Its success is by no means assured. Some executives say privately that the plan would have to grow to twice its present size--112,000 enrollees--in order to spread costs over a wide enough base to stay viable. That means attracting more companies, and even in Minnesota the idea is too radical to prompt more than a kind of nervous interest. Then too, Minneapolis-St. Paul is somewhat unique because of its close-knit business community and well-educated work force. So far, the only feeler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINNESOTA: TWIN CITIES' FRIENDLY PLANS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...subtlety of tete-a-tete conversation. That's why emoticons were invented, those clever keyboard images designed to punctuate online palaver with a fillip of feeling. Some have become well known: ;-) is a wink and a smile (in other words, aren't I ironic?). But the art form has spread beyond its first primitive symbols to become an increasingly complex form of Net expression. Herewith a quick sampling of the latest in postliterate sign language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAY IT WITH A :) | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

CONCORD, New Hampshire: Michael Dorris, the author who helped spread awareness of fetal alcohol syndrome with his award winning book "The Broken Cord," has died from an apparent suicide at age 52. According to Concord police, Dorris was found in motel room and apparently suffocated himself with a plastic bag. Part American Indian, much of Dorris' writing focused on the history and plight of Native Americans. "Native Americans: 500 Years After," and "A Guide to Research in Native American Studies," are among his better known works. But his book "The Broken Cord," earned him the most notoriety with a National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Dorris Dead at 52 | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

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