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...poorly on tests measuring their responsiveness. And at one month, some of the infants still do not perform at the level of normal two-day-olds. Cocaine-exposed babies are easily overstimulated. When that happens, some turn fussy for a while and then doze off; others tense up and squall for hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crack Kids: Innocent Victims | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

From her exile, the scorned theologian then produced a sweeping indictment of clerical attitudes toward sex that soared to the top of the 1989 nonfiction best-seller list in Germany. Last week Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven (Doubleday; $21.95) hit U.S. bookstores amid a squall of controversy. In a nutshell, the author contends that Catholicism "strives to impose its own moral dictatorship without regard to the welfare of married people, a dictatorship based on pleasure-hating, celibate contempt for marriage and a maniacal cult of virginity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fury of A Feminist Scorned | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...sudden squall lashed into the U.S. Navy dirigible Macon as it plied the skies off Northern California. The storm ripped off the upper tail fin of the 785-ft. craft, which plunged slowly toward the waters of the Pacific "like a big old hen settling down on a nest," in the words of one officer. All but two of the Macon's 83-man crew managed to survive by climbing onto life rafts. The Macon's demise abruptly ended the Navy's interest in huge rigid airships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Found: the Lost Dirigible | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

Saturday morning's squall brought more than rain to Harvard. It brought the men's lightweight crew its first defeat of the season...

Author: By Frederik W. Geiersbach, | Title: Harvard's Lights Blacked Out; Yale Claims First in H-Y-P's | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

Absent father. Melancholy mom. Squall-free adolescence followed by the ritual college degree. But with no draft to face -- no obligations at all, really -- how is a bright, sensitive, well-off young fellow to grow up? Honoring tradition, Alec Stern decides to go abroad to try out maturity. His destination: Tokyo. Bicycle Days, a first novel by a 24-year-old Harvard graduate, is the wry, rueful story of Alec's efforts to cope with his job at a computer outfit and with a vexing foreign culture. Through his adoptive family, the friendship of an old fisherman and a troubling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

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