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In Bolivia and Peru, where the cocaine trail begins, governments have made considerable progress toward cleansing themselves of corruption. While some high-level bribery persists, both governments must convince poor farmers that they should get out of the coca business and give up the $1,000 the cartel pays for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drug Thugs | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Not that they will be unredeemed corporate fortresses. Most of the ground floors will consist of shops and restaurants. Furthermore, Developer George Klein has promised to install elaborate commercial signs on the facades. On 42nd Street, Klein and his partners at the Prudential Insurance Co. have agreed to acquire most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Renewal, But a Loss Of Funk | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

We are gratified that Harvard declares its expectation that undergraduates demonstrate or reach a level of competence in quantitative reasoning. This sends an important signal to the rest of the academic world. Unfortunately, however, the current quantitative reasoning test offers no guarantee that the students have a meaningful level of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From the Report: | 2/27/1988 | See Source »

For many of the relentlessly young, the attitude is born out of a community + life that resembles nothing so much as their college years of half a century ago: a life of options, dates, lessons and sudden, surprising fellowship. Florida Gerontologist Otto Von Mering, 65, refers to the "fictive kinship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Grays on The Go | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Although still in its infancy, gerontology has produced major revisions in doctors' understanding of how people grow old. Explains Dr. T. Franklin Williams, director of the National Institute on Aging: "It's the diseases that we acquire in later years that really cause the deterioration of functions." Or, as Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Older - But Coming on Strong | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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