Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...audiences. "Help me get the drug dealers out of the school yards." He wants to create a work camp in the West Texas desert where youthful drug offenders would get a chance to reform without obtaining a police record. He suggests doubling the number of state narcotics agents, establishing special drug courts and stiffening sentences for casual drug users...
...rights of conscious but paralyzed patients to have their ventilators and feeding tubes disconnected. In the most recent, highly publicized case, quadriplegic Larry James McAfee, still paralyzed five years after a motorcycle accident, petitioned the Georgia Supreme Court to allow him to disconnect his own ventilator using a special mouth-activated switch. Upholding McAfee's privacy rights, the court granted his petition. But McAfee subsequently decided not to end his life after...
...Ruven Afanador, 31. What Colombian-born Afanador describes as "luminously toned" portraits are not the usual stuff of our full-color magazine. "I had admired his portfolio and had been looking for several months for the right assignment for him," says MaryAnne Golon, TIME's assistant picture editor for special projects. "I knew immediately that this was the one. Because Ruven is as calm and tasteful as his pictures, he was able to work with the families of our subjects without being intrusive...
...says Afanador, "that I intended to portray a family and the love it felt, not a medical problem." Returning to New York City after several nights with very little sleep, he still was not finished. He headed straight to his darkroom, where he used old photographic paper and a special chemical process to provide the pictures' yellowish cast...
Harvard's Faculty Council is currently debating whether the University should sever all remaining ties with ROTC. Specifically, the Faculty's steering committee is considering whether ROTC should be able to continue holding occasional meetings in Harvard rooms, recruit at career forums and hold special Commencement Exercises...