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As the game neared its end, Harvard's hopes became more and more faint. Columbia dealt the death blow to the Crimson in the 78th minute with the most beautiful goal of the game. McCarthy, taking a free kick on the left side about 23 yards from goal, pushed the...

Author: By Kevin Carter, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Columbia Blanks Harvard Booters; 3-0 Setback Gives Squad 0-2 Record | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

Reality is nasty stuff, tending as it does toward onrushing appointments for root-canal surgery and tuition bills. So it is extremely sad to report that one of the century's most dependable mechanisms for reality avoidance, the many-times-retold spy thriller whose gray secret is the mole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Escape | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Scientists are not yet certain why high levels of cholesterol lead to heart disease or what sets the insidious process in motion. The most widely accepted explanation is the so-called injury theory, propounded by Russell Ross at the University of Washington in Seattle. According to Ross, the disease begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Slow Death Without Fever | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

The citizens of Farmington, Utah, will never forget the sound. "The trees were popping and the boulders rolling," recalls Steve Moon of the fire department. "Anybody who wouldn't be nervous listening to that coming down the hill, there's just got to be something wrong with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: When the Mud Ran Amuck | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

The hunters and, presumably, the hunted went home in sour moods, in time to read News of the World headlines about Diana's supposed onrushing emotional breakdown. The story quoted University of Washington Psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Holmes as saying that Diana had an 80% chance of becoming ill. On his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royalty vs. the Pursuing Press: In Stalking Diana, Fleet Street Strains the Rules | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

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