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By charging callers up to $50 for the chance to talk dirty, telephone sex services have become a $2.4 billion business. The Federal Communications Commission has gone after them with a regulation banning interstate telephone services that are obscene or indecent. Porn operators challenged the ruling, and last week federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pornography: Get Off the Telephone | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

Responding to public outrage over the Horton incident, Dukakis signed a new law last April banning furloughs for first-degree murderers. Explaining his turnaround, Dukakis said simply, "I try to listen, I try to learn." But the Governor still becomes testy when confronted with the question. During a debate in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The One That Got Away | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

British authorities subsequently clamped down at home by banning alcohol sales in stadiums and installing closed-circuit TV monitors and metal detectors. No use: the rowdy element among the fans -- mostly young men who labor in manual trades -- kept up its nasty ways in incidents around England.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany A Disgrace to Civilized Society | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

Unexplored until the early years of this century, Antarctica holds largely scientific interest for Washington, which operates four permanent stations on the continent, including the only encampment at the South Pole. In 1959 the U.S. and eleven other nations agreed on a treaty banning military activity and all nuclear materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antarctica How to Open Up the Coldest Cache | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

The U.S. leads in the miniaturized guidance and propulsion systems for cruise missiles. Partly for that reason, the Soviets first wanted to ban SLCMs in START and later subject them to stringent limits. Some American military experts have argued that SLCMs are among the nastier creatures to emerge from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Superpowers: Inside Moves | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

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