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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appear younger and rosier every year. But while detachment from the demanding work of the presidency may be physically healthy, it inevitably leads to a breakdown of the president's immunity to policy failure. The recent discovery of the "Contramania" scandal reveals the weaknesses such detachment can breed...

Author: By Seth Goldman, | Title: Presidency in Absentia | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

Programming is so important that a New Age breed of crystal therapists has sprung up to teach the uninitiated how to harness their rock power. Brett Bravo, 54, who was raised a strict Methodist in Texas, left organized religion in l975 to follow her "evolutionary spiritual path" to Solana Beach, Calif., where she conducts weekly seminars on how to program crystals. In a $45 one-day session, participants learn to cure ailments, erase negativity and recharge energy stores. "The way the stones heal," claims Bravo, "is by man's electrical field combining with the crystal's electromagnetic field. This affects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Rock Power for Health and Wealth | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

Afghans are a special breed; unlike most people in the third world they never have been colonized. Three British attempts in the 19th and early 20th centuries to extend British India's border into Afghanistan were fended off by the fiercly independent Afghans...

Author: By Katarina Enberg, | Title: Thinking About Afghanistan | 12/15/1986 | See Source »

...midair capture of the Achille Lauro hijackers as they were being flown out of Egypt, and organized the U.S. Navy's first strike against Libya's radar installations last March. The agency's record of accomplishment allowed more than one of its members to consider himself a breed apart. Said one in early November: "We're the only ones who can make things happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Can-Do Agency | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...mediocrity doesn't necessarily breed dull games, and the heavily bundled sell-out crowd at the Stadium should have a good game to look forward to. For the third straight weekend, the weather could play a major role in the Harvard contest...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Season Begins and Ends Today | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

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