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...notice the nightmare in their midst. When Time visited the building recently, neighbors brushed aside questions, some closing their doors without a word. On the door of Franck V.'s old apartment, the current tenants have pasted a handwritten notice reading: "Ssh! Baby asleep, don't ring the bell." The community still seems unable to express its unease. "Everyone is horrified yet no one knows how to speak about it," says Saint Léonard's Roman Catholic priest, Father Charles de Bodman. Police are still searching for a group of men, who the children say arrived at Franck...
...Stealing the tongue of the college bell...
...eight minutes and one second in all, the first three minutes especially, they flurried in a slaughter house. Immediately Hagler's forehead was opened and Hearns' right hand was crushed, injuries not exactly unrelated. Only to Hagler did the first round seem brief. "I hated to hear that bell ring." He could make out the shouts from Hearns' corner to box, box, box. "I wanted him to continue fighting...
...center reflect a surprising trend: a teacher shortage that promises to get worse, not only in Los Angeles but throughout the state of California and some other parts of the country. Within the next few weeks Los Angeles must find 2,500 new instructors for its classrooms. Before the bell rings for the new term, California needs a total of some 16,500 additional elementary and secondary teachers, a number that Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig believes will jump to about 110,000 by 1991. Conservative predictions from the National Center for Education Statistics put the countrywide demand...
...that is what SDI is all about. It is a research program." One way to test the system thoroughly, he says, may be through computer simulations of a full-scale nuclear war--a goal he thinks can eventually be achieved. Brockway Mac-Millan, a retired vice president at Bell Laboratories who directed the development of the Safeguard antiballistic-missile software system in the early 1970s, agrees. "Given the proper tools and enough time," he says, "I think the software problems can be solved." --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt