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...cope with anxiety and tension, millions of people reach for a Valium, a tranquilizer that has become the U.S.'s most widely prescribed drug. Now comes a report guaranteed to make users of the drug anything but tranquil. According to a Canadian physiologist, Valium may promote the growth and spread of cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Valium Alarm | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...then came Proposition 13, and inevitably behind it Ronald Reagan, the Kemp-Roth tax cut, an end to the Environmental Protection Agency, the death of the Equal Rights Amendment, a one-sided partnership between business and government. In short, the restoration of the same American dream that once made tranquil the sleep of Calvin Coolidge but haunted Herbert Hoover...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Crashing | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

...poor black; the "Gold Coast'1 out along 16th Street is largely black and upper middle class and stucco. But the city has more than its share of the ravages of poverty, a situation not improved after the riots of 1968, when "white flight" to tranquil McLean, Va., and such places left the city poorer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Place to Hate and Love | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...flat 3.2-mile course through the tranquil waters and Greek temples of Roger Williams Park, located six miles from the Brown campus, had a fork that took Harvard's number-three runner, Ellen Gallagher, way out of her way. And with her went the chance to beat a skillful squad from...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Harriers Bag Brown | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...cadets are so high for this game, It's unbelievable," Cow (the army term for junior) Brad Lewallen said yesterday, and the mood around this tranquil and beautiful campus bears him out. One company (dorm unit) has planned a "Joe Preppie" night for the evening meal, where the cadets will dress "as preppily as possible" in mock-deference to the visiting Crimson, according to yearling (sophomore) Michelle Matthews. Matthews may have an edge; her brother, Mark, is a Harvard sophomore...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Gridders March to West Point | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

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