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...succeeding Otto Fuerbringer, the trend toward cover stories about issues, ideas and events grew more pronounced. Covers on the birth-control pill in 1967 and the battle over busing to achieve desegregation in 1975 focused on the issues more than on the protagonists; photographs of the meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986 and the San Francisco earthquake in 1989 dramatized events. Instead of a Man or Woman of the Year for 1982, TIME designated the computer as Machine of the Year. Amid growing anxiety about the environment, the "Endangered Earth" was named Planet of the Year...
DEADLY MELTDOWN Fear spreads from Chernobyl...
...firms used to rebound quickly after bad news, August has been the long goodbye. Philip Morris plunged from $104.66 a share to $88, and RJR Nabisco from $30.75 to $25.50. Loews Corp., parent of Lorillard Tobacco, slipped from $80.66 to $74.75. "This has all the makings of a tobacco Chernobyl," says Ackerman. Not if you ask the accountants. Overall, profits and sales in the industry are up this year, and sales abroad are strong...
Robug III $1.3 million Designed as a nuclear-disaster rescuer by scientists in the wake of Chernobyl, it has eight spidery legs and suction-padded feet, allowing it to climb vertically. A human operator controls its movement via a TV screen...
...CHERNOBYL, Ukraine: People flocked to Chernobyl Friday to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the deadliest accident in the history of commercial atomic power. Ten years ago, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine spewed lethal radiation killing at least 30 people and affecting thousands more across the then-Soviet Union and Europe. On April 26, 1986 the blast at unit no. 4 caused a nuclear meltdown, with blazes burning at temperatures of up to 5000 Fahrenheit, or twice that of molten steel. The reactor burned for two weeks slowly releasing dangerous radioactivity into...