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...usual Union policy allows students to take fruit to eat during the meal. However, more and more students are leaving their fruit uneaten and putting it on the conveyor belt to be thrown away, said O'Neil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Apple a Day Not Much More | 10/25/1985 | See Source »

...universal national service might go part way in solving that, by making us a more connected society. When a privileged Ivy Leaguer is thrown together with a Black kid from Harlem and a farm boy from Iowa, we might begin to understand each other a little better. It certainly won't be peachy--there will probably be a lot of tension between us. But we'll go home knowing more about each other. A universal national service won't solve all our problems, but it will help eliminate the ignorance that makes solving them all the more diffucult...

Author: By Brian W. Kladko, | Title: Mom's Demands and the Government's | 10/24/1985 | See Source »

...talented Tiger, who last weekend threw for 438 yards, has completed 80 of 143 passes this season for 911 yards. In his career, Butler has thrown for 6265 yards and 40 touchdowns...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Will the Butler Do It? | 10/22/1985 | See Source »

...racial disturbances that first rocked Britain's inner cities in 1981 and flared again this year were grim reminders of the nation's increasingly deep social problems. Yet there seemed to be limits to the violence. No police had been killed, and although rioters had thrown rocks and gasoline bombs, they had never used guns. All that changed in a few fierce hours last week when angry rioters, mostly blacks, rampaged through the north London neighborhood of Tottenham. A dozen youths hacked a policeman to death with machetes, and others fired shotguns, rifles and pistols at the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Under Fire | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...passengers and 315 crew aboard, was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen. Once again American passengers were singled out for especially brutal attention. One of them, Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of New York City, a stroke victim confined to a wheelchair, was shot in cold blood through the forehead and his body thrown overboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The U.S. Sends a Message | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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