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...sure we should settle for this compromise. A call to first names will not only draw us together more closely, it will destroy the hard-line patriarchy in place at Harvard...

Author: By Dan E. Markel, | Title: Can We Call You Al? | 12/9/1992 | See Source »

...earth's protective ozone layer is vanishing even faster than predicted. That warning from scientists has led 93 nations to agree to speed up phasing out use of chemicals that destroy the atmospheric shield. Updating the timetable known as the Montreal Protocol, delegates at a United Nations conference in Copenhagen moved up elimination of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and carbon tetrachloride to 1996, four years ahead of schedule. Halons and methyl chloroform will be banned earlier too, in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Researchers forecast more skin cancer as the ozone layer disappears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Skin | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...side are the reformers, led by Yeltsin and acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, who want to instill the basics of capitalism through rapid privatization, price decontrol and tight money to curb inflation. On the other are the conservatives, who argue that such policies will destroy Russia's industrial base and exact too high a human cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy: Why It Still Doesn't Work | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...time to lobby so that change will never come. Some is sincere concern about disrupting the nation's defenses. But before Clinton agrees to any delay, he must answer a question implied in his own statements. If it will be wrong in the future to exclude gays and destroy the careers of those in place, how can it possibly be right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mind-Set Under Siege | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...have said that we are not doing anything now which we have not been doing for 20 years. We call for the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction in Israel and Syria. If they destroy what they have, and we destroy what we have, both of us will feel secure. Otherwise, neither of us will feel secure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hafez Assad: Land Before Peace | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

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