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Word: stephen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consequences in later life. Thus, doctors are often uncertain about which sexual direction to take, especially with patients who are too young to have developed any sexual identity. Now a sophisticated new test is available to help doctors make that crucial decision. In using the technique, devised by Immunologists Stephen Wachtel, Gloria Koo and their colleagues at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, doctors ignore external sexual features. Instead, they investigate the basic arbiters of sexual identity, the chromosomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Making Sure About Sex | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...South Africa's most able trial attorneys; the witness was Colonel Pieter Johannes Goosen, the officer in charge of security police at Port Elizabeth. Their angry exchange in Pretoria last week provided the dramatic high point of an extraordinary public inquest into the death of Black Consciousness Leader Stephen Biko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Inquest into a Curious Death | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...more like a firehouse than a bureau, with some 50 incoming calls daily. The whole country wants to talk. It is as if everyone has been put on a think-tank-a-day alert on South Africa's future." McWhirter interviewed Minister of Justice James Kruger on the Stephen Biko affair, and has met with Afrikaner students, Boer families, colored leaders and young black militants. "One disheartening thing that has happened in the past few months," he says, "is the growing suspicion in Soweto, the black ghetto outside Johannesburg, toward all whites. When I first arrived, a black friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 21, 1977 | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...their country into a police state, can control unrest. In June 1976, student-inspired riots broke out in the sprawling black suburb of Soweto, outside Johannesburg; urban black unrest has continued sporadically across the country ever since, taking more than 600 lives. Two months ago, a young black leader, Stephen Biko, 30, died mysteriously in prison. An inquest is still pending, but there is widespread suspicion that prison beating contributed to his death. The Biko case produced further disorder, and on Oct. 19 the government responded by arresting or "banning"?a unique form of near-solitary confinement which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Defiant White Tribe | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...significance of the contest, held at Soliders Field, will probably best be appreciated by posterity. The two teams battled to a scoreless tie in the first half before the Crimson's Stephen Potts drilled home the clinching tally...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Stickmen Win in Intercollegiate Debut | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

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