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There is also a need to invest in education to combat with the "backlog of generations" who were uneducated in the past, Marx said...

Author: By Caralee E. Caplan, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Panelists Discuss Democracy | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...week's election is a milestone. For the first time, none of the chief standard-bearers are products of those ancient mills of correct breeding, Oxford and Cambridge. Of the Cinderellas awaiting the nation's hand, moreover, none looks likelier to dance all night than a newcomer accustomed to combat boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Invitations to the Dance | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...cured diabetes and restored some sight in animals. The cells have repaired some spinal-cord injuries, allowing injured rats to run at normal speed. Implants in the brain have improved memory and learning. The work has led scientists to speculate that the cells can be used to treat epilepsy, combat leukemia and stop such degenerative diseases as Huntington's chorea and Alzheimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Abortions Save Lives | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

Bean-Bayog said that comment was taken from aflash card intended to combat his depression. Shesaid the reference to "phenomenal sex" was astatement Lozano "desired to have from, and wasattributing to, his then girlfriend...

Author: By Robin Kolodny, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Doctor Defends Conduct | 4/1/1992 | See Source »

Rather than considering with this person the unresolved issues of what anti-Arabism might and might not mean and perhaps even how to combat it, I'm giving her a quite reasonable feeling of being victimized, escalating the conflict and possibly providing her with psychological motivation to develop a prejudice she may well never have had. Certainly, I'm not making it easy for her to voice sincere regret for the hurt her remarks may have caused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Talk, Don't Label | 4/1/1992 | See Source »

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