http://endablog.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/ignorance-like-a-cancer-grows-and-covers-up-less-palatable-truths/ (http://endablog.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/ignorance-like-a-cancer-grows-and-covers-up-less-palatable-truths/)
Ignorance, Like a Cancer, Grows - And Covers Up Less Palatable Truths
1989.
By my math - and I admit I am but a lawyer and a Ph.D. candidate in history - 1989 is 8 more than 1981. Chronologically, 1989 is 8 years after 1981.
Pleae correct me if I'm wrong on that.
In 1981, the Massachusetts Legislature knew enough about at least transsexual issues to enact a transsexual birth certificate statute.
EDIT: Touched up subject text - =K