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...lopsided liberal-arts graduate" of Bryn Mawr College who joined TIME in 1965, Nash credits her fascination with such topics to a firm belief that "nothing is so difficult that it can't be understood with a little effort." Her marriage to a physicist helps, allowing her "to absorb a feel for how scientists think and operate, virtually by osmosis...
Everywhere he went, Gorbachev and his wife Raisa were besieged by cheering and excited crowds chanting, "Gorbi! Gorbi! Gorbi!" Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who faces a tough campaign for re-election in 1990, made seven appearances with his visitor, hoping, perhaps, to absorb some of the generous warmth. Gorbachev's popularity rating among West German voters is considerably higher than Kohl's; a poll taken for the weekly Der Spiegel in early June gave Gorbachev a score of +2.2 on a scale of +5 to -5, compared with -0.6 for Kohl...
...Business School's Public Management Club this week announces it will renew its effort to propose a loan forgiveness plan similar to those at the Law School and Kennedy School. The program would absorb the debts of students who take low-paying public service or government jobs after graduation...
...Quartzsite is subject to the same forces that control the vast flocks of migratory birds that traverse the continent twice a year. In winter the town swells to absorb 200,000 people. They are refugees from the frozen North, most of them retirees making their seasonal escape in RVs. Then, usually in April, when the temperature begins to rise and the lure of the North is greater, the huge encampment with its bustling activity rolls away, evaporating like runoff from a desert cloudburst...
There's no mayor, no water system, not even a stoplight. But each winter, tiny Quartzsite, Ariz., grows to absorb 200,000 people, only to shrink again come spring. What attracts the snowbirds...