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...three have joined 37 other leading world scientists, selected more than a year-and-a-half ago by a faculty committee, for a series of 10 panels at the Med School on major advances in the biomedical sciences and on the relationship of medicine to society...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Three Doctors Share Nobel | 10/12/1982 | See Source »

Elvis has obviously poured his guts into the making of Imperial, but it is clear he poured without direction. It has been after all, about a year-and-a-half since he last released original material with Trust. Almost Blue was entirely country covers--and Elvis has never appeared more urgent, more frantic simply to get his ideas spilling out. The album is terribly passionate, loaded with sharp commentary about out-of-touch English aristocracy, the dilemma of getting your girlfriend pregnant, and broken marriages. What's more, Costello goes crazy on the overdubbing of his own voice, on snappy...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Growing Up With Elvis | 9/21/1982 | See Source »

...minds of tenant activists, however, perhaps HRE's most grievous offense is its staunch refusal to recognize the existence and legitimacy of the Harvard Tenants Union, now about a year-and-a-half old. "They seem to hope we go away," Turk said shortly after the union's first anniversary...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Harvard: Enlightened Or Despotic Giant? | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...treaty had been adopted. Since Reagan's start will not finish until after "many years of concentrated effort" at best, the appeal of a treaty to which Moscow has already agreed is not negligible; such items do not grow on trees. In trashing the SALT process, Reagan is also setting an unhealthy precedent. No long-term, step-by-step arms control or reduction is going to take place if every administration wipes out the progress that has preceded it and spends a year-and-a-half to start from scratch...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: A False START? | 5/13/1982 | See Source »

Conversely, as the coalition wallows in severe disarray and indecision, MATEP is the busiest it's ever been. Construction work has virtually concluded, engineers are readying for the imminent diesel testing and start-up. For a year-and-a-half, the steam-and-chilled-water portions have been churning efficiently. MATEP is progressing now just like it was supposed to years...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Making Energy and Enemies | 3/10/1982 | See Source »

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