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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human brain and the rest of the central nervous system are immersed in a bath of cerebrospinal fluid, which must remain at a constant pressure. Anything that causes a significant increase in that pressure-a brain tumor, a hemorrhage, a bad head injury-may be fatal unless the fluid can be drained off in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Feb. 27, 1978 | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...final volume of Children of Crisis, because working-class people interviewed by Coles repeatedly told him that if he really wanted to understand the nation's poor, he must also study the ones who control their lives. "You really can't know about plain working people like us unless you go find out about the bigshots. It's their decisions which make us end up living our lives the way we do," one woman told Coles...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: How the Two Halves Live | 2/24/1978 | See Source »

...making a demand for recognition of our uniqueness, as Third World people. It is a recognition that Harvard gives to athletes, musicians, and alumni children, but not us. Until recognition of our uniqueness is made Harvard cannot claim to be a truly diverse, hence great, university. Unless Harvard uses and legitimizes those people best able to recognize and understand the talents of Third World students and staff, these goals will never be achieved. This recognition must be a dynamic process, not merely as compensation for past oppression, but as acknowledgement of the fact that Third World people comprise a large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minority Recruitment A Third World, a Different World | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

...major objection to the PIRG petitioning in the houses was the so-called "negative checkoff" provision, which adds a fee of $5 per semester to each undergraduate's term bill unless the student checks a box which exempts him from payment...

Author: By Michael E.silver, | Title: PIRG to Begin Petition Drive | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

...talks was the failure of other Arab leaders to join in the negotiations. "Sadat is desperate not to stay alone" in the talks with Israel, said Dayan. Sadat's hoped-for partner is Jordan's King Hussein. But, said Dayan, "he cannot get Hussein into the process unless he gets an agreement in advance on a West Bank withdrawal and a Palestinian state ... and we are not going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Determined to Persevere | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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