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Television programs of the 80s touched the heart. From Vicki, everyone's favorite daughter-robot from "Small Wonder," to the dim but lovable Rose Nylon from "Golden Girls," to the naive yet shrewd Balki Bartokomous from "Perfect Strangers," the characters of touchy-feely 80s sitcoms were remarkably diverse. But were their shows as versatile? Pairings of several of the decade's television masterpieces may force American cultural scholars and historians to dub the period the "Imitation 80s...
...bring this notion a little closer to home. One of the most influential and rigorous studies of sexual assault on college campuses was conducted in the mid-80s by Dr. Mary Koss, then a professor at Kent State. Koss found that one in 12 college men admitted to behaviors that fit the legal definition of rape. Applying the results of that study to Harvard, we can expect that just about all of us know someone affected by rape. The problem is that we rarely know we know...
...restroom, an amalgam of Woodstock and West Side Story, has graffiti exceeding even the Lamont third floor women's room in its abundance and occasional creativity. If the industrial metal stall doors are supposed to scream Def Leppard to the child of the '80s, then the walls of psychedelic patterns straight out of Fantasia will comfort an older generation...
...children caught in a divorce. Keep in mind, she was 14 and at a formative age. But I really resent all of the tabloid-like allusions to Beverly Hills 90210, because Monica was no different from affluent kids anywhere else. She grew up with the morals of the '80s and '90s. Like all kids today, and in my time too, they make mistakes. But with the exception of a couple of mistakes--and Andy Bleiler was one of them--Monica was normal for her generation. She dated, she tested the line between adolescence and adulthood. She was not an affluent...
...comparing the DNA of the 1959 virus with that of samples taken from the '80s and '90s, Ho and his colleagues constructed a viral family tree in which the Leopoldville isolate sits right at the juncture where three subtypes branch out. The 39-year-old specimen is also strikingly similar to the other seven subtypes. The clear implication: all the viral strains can be traced back to a single event or a closely related group of events. One theory is that AIDS started through contact with infected monkeys in a remote area and spread to the rest of the population...