Word: research
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Blue (ABC). To benefit AIDS research, 20 rock stars took a crack at Cole Porter, and several contributed striking videos as well. Among the best: David Byrne's high-spirited collage of faces for Don't Fence Me In and Annie Lennox getting misty-eyed over home movies in a heartbreaking Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye...
Even if they are not planning to sell, homeowners feel poorer when values drop. "The price of your house was your standard of value in the 1970s," says Kathryn Eickhoff, president of her own economics-research firm in New York. "You couldn't make money in the stock market, but you knew your house would go up in value. But now that confidence is being tested, and people feel vulnerable...
Best Reason to Avoid Drinking with the Boys Research showed what experience has long revealed: women can't hold liquor as well as men. Women have far smaller amounts of a stomach enzyme that breaks down alcohol before it enters the blood. Thus they get blitzed faster...
Nonetheless, the symbolism of the decision was potent, and educators reacted accordingly. "This is an example of something that in the abstract looks like good principle but that results in horrible policy," says Robert Zemsky, director of the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. "It is the wrong message at the wrong time." Even the White House was distancing itself from the policy, pointing out that it came from the bowels of the Education Department. At week's end President Bush called for a review of the decision...
Once the news spread, colleges took a range of precautions. Dartmouth abruptly put on hold its planned announcement of a $20,000-a-year Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship. Johns Hopkins sought advice from its lawyers. Other institutions were more defiant. The American Council on Education, a lobbying and research organization, told its 1,800 member colleges and universities to ignore the opinion. Declared Florida Atlantic's Catanese: "We are not going to adhere to this directive because we think it is wrong...