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...Tenth District: Representative Gerry Studds faces a challenge for the second time from USAir pilot and Bridgewater State College faculty member Jon Bryan. While Bryan is drawing some support from the national Republican Party, Studds defeated him in 1988 with 67 percent of the vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Congressional Races Remain Slow | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...life that what I do -- actually molding kids' views -- could have negative repercussions for years." For others, there have been frustrating surprises. "I couldn't believe that on my first day some kid was winking at me!" says Vanderbilt graduate Melissa Menotti, 21, who taught algebra to tenth- and eleventh- graders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Crusaders in The Classroom | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

Should it surprise anyone that the estimated $100 million per year Cambridge animal research industry complains about the extra one-tenth of one percent cost required to carry out the provisions of the Lab Animal Ordinance and office of the Commissioner for Lab Animals? Speaking of the need for regulation of industries by the public, MIT Professor of Nuclear Engineering Lawrence Lidsky has said, "No one ever said democracy ws the most efficient way to get a job done. It happens, however, to be the only one we can trust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Lab Animals | 7/10/1990 | See Source »

...Germany's 1945 territory and 72% of the nation's population -- were merged to form the Federal Republic, with its headquarters in Bonn. Economically, the figures are even more impressive: the East German economy that now has been joined to that of West Germany forms only one-tenth of the combined total. During those past 40 years, the world witnessed cruel wars in Korea, Vietnam, Algeria, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Nicaragua, but the mostly united Germans caused no trouble to anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany Toward Unity | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...small subjects for Arthur Hailey. Others may write about a double room or a 747; he takes on the entire Hotel and Airport. In his tenth novel, Hailey, 70, offers every sound bite of The Evening News (Doubleday; 564 pages; $21.95), plus executive-suite skirmishes between an anchorman and a correspondent, rivalries for beautiful and ambitious women, and a global sweep, from Vietnam to Peru -- with requisite stops in Washington, Los Angeles and New York. The characters are familiar, and the insights strictly keyhole. But Rather, Brokaw and Jennings could learn a lot about pace and timing from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

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