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...this point, [students] are thinking 'I know what you are supposed to do, but I can't do it'," says Cara L. Vaughn, public information manager for student health services at the University of California at Berkeley. But some of the information seems to have sunk in, as condom sales at the UHS pharmacy rose this year, with much of the increase coming in bulk packages of three dozen condoms...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: University Practices Safe Education and Prevention | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...dispute left many wondering, and worrying, about what the U.S. response would be if one of the Kuwaiti ships it is protecting were attacked by Iran. "We've now put a symbol out there in the Persian Gulf," said Senator John Glenn. "If they're sunk, what are we prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did This Happen? | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...four billion people are in poverty and 40,000 children die of starvation every day, our economic assistance has dropped by almost 50 percent in real dollars since 1960--and much of that is concentrated now on just two countries, Egypt and Israel. Among the industrialized nations, we have sunk to 17th in the proportion of our gross national product that we give to aid our poorer neighbors abroad. Some even have suggested that $200 million is to much to give to Aquino's Philippene government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Bok: | 5/20/1987 | See Source »

...could probably make do with some "psychiatric treatment." Even though the gift met the divinely ordained total that Roberts had announced, he continued his fast in the Prayer Tower and asked his flock for more cash. Roberts' performance caused Swaggart to lament, "The gospel of Jesus Christ has never sunk to such a level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evangelism: TV's Unholy Row | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Harvard pulled to within one point at the 1:30 mark, 69-68, until John Bean sunk a turnaround jumper with less than a minute to play, forcing the Crimson to foul intentionally, which it did without success...

Author: By Vadim Nikitine, | Title: Men Cagers Lost in a Big Green Haze | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

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