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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVEN the most basic apsects of a healthy lifestyle have been drawn into a parasitical relationship with modern, quick-fix culture. Notions of good health are governed by a misdirected philosophy of immediate gratification and a hell-bent emphasis on current notions of good looks, while advertisers and the growing health industry invest millions in glamour and gloss to see that we never forget our waist lines...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Wisdom From Muscle Beach | 3/22/1989 | See Source »

While the opening atmospherics were promising, the devil, as arms controllers say, is in the details. The Soviets scored early with ambitious unilateral initiatives that went a long way toward meeting the basic Western criterion of trimming the Warsaw Pact's alarming and unmatched capacity to overrun Europe. Beyond that, the East bloc is prepared for a fundamental restructuring of the Continent's military balance that could sharply diminish the dangerous confrontation across Europe's political fault line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West Let's Count Down | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...abundance. Juxtaposing excerpts from declassified FBI files with tales of a childhood thrown into turmoil by the early postwar Red scares, he has created a new genre -- what might be called the investigative memoir. It combines the journalistic thrill of Watergate with the emotional punch of that most basic of literary themes, a boy's search to understand his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: My Father the Communist | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Fortunately, the most ardent supporters of genetic research are the first to admit the potential for abuse and see the need for ground rules. Many ethicists and scientists who have studied the issues agree on certain basic principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Perils of Treading on Heredity | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...basic facts were eerily familiar. A North African nation stood accused of obtaining equipment from a European firm in order to build a poison-gas plant. Only this time the culprit is not U.S. antagonist Libya but good friend Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: Odious Transactions | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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