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...port of Jidda and the inland capital of Riyadh, each with a population of more than 1 million today have become two of the fastest growing cities in the Middle East. Skyscrapers sprout from the desert landscape. Building cranes bristle across the horizon. Multi-lane highways and ringroads girdle the cities. Old neighborhoods change dramatically in a matter of weeks; new ones spring up overnight. The din of traffic and construction, residents complain, makes it virtually impossible to sleep after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia: Shoring Up the Kingdom | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...trade me." A .271 lifetime hitter, Remy was swinging the bat at a .313 clip when a knee injury felled him last July. A left-handed hitter with absolutely no power, Remy is the only real base-stealing threat in the Boston arsenal. For a team theoretically sporting a multi-dimensional attack, speed would seem to be vital...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Red Sox Prospects: Finding Room for Remy and Stapleton | 3/11/1981 | See Source »

Szaro went out for outdoor track that spring and promptly broke the school and the New Englan javelin record with a toss of 246' 7". But a sophomore year injury curtailed his physical activities, and the multi-sport star was forced to give up running...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Placekicker Says There's More To Life Than Football | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

That is how some Harvard administrators reacted when they learned students were displeased with the University's unpublicized sale of $50 million in Citibank notes and deposits, a sale made because the New York bank extended a multi-million dollar line of credit to the South African government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mum's The Word | 3/3/1981 | See Source »

While smokers during the 70's were hanging out using bongs and listening to the Allman Brothers, Stroup was creating an organization to prevent the arbitrary labeling of these smokers as criminals. Funded by public interest groups such as the Playboy Foundation and by secondary components of the multi-billion-dollar marijuana industry such as paraphernalia manufacturers and High Times Magazine, Stroup was able to put together model decriminalization legislation sponsor objective scientific studies and provide pro bono legal aid to the victims of some of the crueler dope laws in the United States, victims like Frank Demolli...

Author: By Martin B. Schwimmer, | Title: Too High for Politics | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

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