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...landmark 1987 study by the United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice, is that 3 of every 5 black and Hispanic Americans live in areas with uncontrolled toxic-waste sites. Many of the most notorious dumping grounds are located in the South. Among the worst is "cancer alley," a 75-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, that is lined with oil refineries and petrochemical plants. The alley's abnormally high cancer rate has prompted one health worker to call it a massive human experiment. A big mess in Chicago is the work...
...rape. "They will do anything to please each other," observes psychologist Sandler. "They are raping for each other. The woman is incidental." And, she adds, "they don't think of it as rape even when the victim is unconscious. Rape is something done by one man in a dark alley...
Hoglund's tenure has bridged TIME's transition to full color as well as the computer revolution in publishing. A native of Cleveland, he began his career at a newspaper syndicate, hand lettering the dialogue balloons in Alley Oop and other cartoon strips. He served as art director of the now defunct More magazine, a journalism review, before coming here in 1977 as deputy to Walter Bernard, his predecessor as art director. Together, Bernard and Hoglund created the design that remains the basis for TIME's look today. That design began to evolve almost immediately as editors and art directors...
...appendix, Sakharov says, "There is a need to create ideals even when you can't see any way to achieve them, because if there are no ideals then there can be no hope and then one would be left completely in the dark, in a hopeless blind alley...
...second, his body's engine racing, in front of a shop with a mannequin in its window dressed in a stately white wedding gown. The fugitive speaks with a distracted courtesy, wanting to be polite but needing to flee for his life, and then vanishes into an alley. The owner of the shop slams down his steel curtain over the window with the wedding gown. The mannequin bride goes blank...