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If one disagrees with specific farming practices, like veal production methods, the proper response is to use persuasion and publicity to convince others to share that position and abstain from the offending product. If enough agree, the market will force a modification of the unwanted behavior. Question 3 chooses the...

Author: By Charles N.W. Keckler, | Title: An `Animal Farm' Referendum | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

Until recently, the form of travel available to Soviet dissidents was one way. Now, though, it looks as if the Soviet Union's most prominent dissenter will be granted a visa for a trip to the U.S. that will not result in unwanted exile. Physicist Andrei Sakharov, winner of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: A Travel Permit For Sakharov | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

A small Israeli company called Mepro is helping millions of women avoid the razor's edge. Mepro manufactures Epilady, a device that employs a rotating coil to grasp unwanted hair and pull it out at the root, leaving skin smooth for weeks. Introduced in 1986, Epilady (price for the basic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTS: A Plucky Little Buzzer | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

For generations, pregnant women have dosed themselves with unpalatable, hazardous potions in desperate, largely unsuccessful efforts to rid their bodies of unwanted fetuses. Among the dubious household remedies: swallowing narcotics made from hempseed, douching with the caustic disinfectant potassium permanganate, and even quaffing gin laced with iron filings. Such medieval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: After-The-Fact Birth Control | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

But some said the lack of interhouse was not a disadvantage. One sophomore joked that exclusive dining rooms are a helpful way to shed unwanted suitors, while Joel W. Straka '90 said the lack of interhouse had not affected his social life. "We have no friends [in other houses]," he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot-Kirkland Kitchen Not Done; Construction Prevents Interhouse | 9/27/1988 | See Source »

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