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...interest in this alarming story can be traced back to his childhood in Canton, Ohio. "I've been fascinated with this subject ever since grade school. I remember the drills where we cowered under our desks as we prepared for the big one," he says. "My generation was shaped by the Bomb. In a way, I've been reporting this story for decades." In the interim, though, Ted made his mark in journalism. He joined TIME in 1987 after serving eight years on the investigative staff at the Washington Post, where his work won a Pulitzer nomination, a George Polk...
...weekend. Does Hollywood think everybody is going to just one movie on June 19? Have the bosses forgotten the lesson of 1989, when brave little Disney opened Honey, I Shrunk the Kids the same day that Batman opened and eventually earned $130 million for the $10 million comedy? Mark Canton, president of Columbia Pictures, hopes there is room for the long shots, the Lil E. Tees, to sprint past the big-budget Arazis. "Our films aren't supertankers," he says. "They're not obvious movies. They don't have a prior history. But they've all tested from Very Good...
...hockey team (14-4-6 overall, 13-1-6 ECAC) travels up to the North Country in this last weekend of the regular season to face Clarkson (20-7-1, 14-5-1) tonight in Potsdam, N.Y. and St. Lawrence (17-9-2,13-6-1) tomorrow night in Canton, N.Y., for two games that will determine the fate of the ECAC regular season title...
This weekend, the Elis did the unthinkable. Yale tied St. Lawrence, 2-2, in Canton, N.Y. on Friday, and almost pulled off an upset the next night against Clarkson...
...deepest conflict between the U.S. and Japan, though, was over the future of China, which had been in turmoil ever since the collapse of the Manchu Empire in 1911. Though Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek claimed that his Canton- based Kuomintang represented the entire republic, local warlords ruled much of the country, notably the huge northern territory of Manchuria. The Japanese, who had blocked a number of Russian incursions into Manchuria, were moving in to gain control of the region's plentiful coal and iron, which Japan sorely lacked...