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...players mumbled much the same thing. In light of such failed piety, Notre Dame's traditional boast of having God on its side has been badly shaken. In fact, some people are saying that the departure of this good man proves God takes no active interest in football, a bitter suggestion in South Bend...
...felt bitter after reading the article on artificial-heart recipients [MEDICINE, Dec. 9]. To subject a human to the confines of an artificial life-support system is an unethical and deplorable act of modern medicine. It is time man accepts the fact that as a life form, he is finite, and that the quality of life, not the quantity, is what should be valued. Jeffrey Reese Davis Chattanooga, Tenn...
...result was a whiff of that old capitalist evil, inflation: in some cities, food prices jumped 35% in early 1985. The blow was softened by a continuation of wage increases begun immediately after Mao's death. Nonetheless the price boosts stirred widespread grumbling, particularly among older Chinese who retain bitter memories of the hyper-inflation that preceded the Communist takeover...
Among the casualties of the computer troubles was Steven Jobs, the brash co-founder of Apple who started the firm in a California garage nine years ago. After a bitter power struggle with John Sculley, his hand-picked president, Jobs left in September, taking five top employees with him to start a new computer company. Said he: "I am but 30 and want still to contribute and achieve...
...thousands of unsuspecting Finnish radio listeners, the bitter cold, snowy Sunday afternoon all of a sudden turned hot. Expecting light entertainment, they instead heard "newscasters" announce that World War III had begun. The West German city of Hamburg had been pulverized by a Soviet nuclear missile, the broadcast said, while radioactive fallout was threatening Finland. Already 500 million people had perished in the first exchanges of a great nuclear conflagration...