Word: circe
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Reaganites were admitting nothing, but there was evidence that the former Governor's strategists had engaged in some last-minute gamesmanship. It was Reagan who first challenged Bush to a two-man debate on Jan. 29, and the Nashua Telegraph (circ. 25,604) agreed to sponsor it. Two days before the debate, however, the Federal Election Commission ruled that the paper's sponsorship amounted to an il legal political contribution. Reagan offered to split the $3,500 tab with Bush. Bush refused, so Reagan paid...
...Angolite (circ. 2,000) is published every other month. Each issue contains between 35 and 50 letters to the editor, news reports on matters of interest to inmates, a listing of recent court rulings and a number of feature articles. The editors move freely around the prison and make unmonitored outside telephone calls. In the company of a guard, they can venture off prison grounds to cover a story. While naturally sympathetic to inmates' positions, the Angolite is not a reflexive advocate. Not long ago, for example, the magazine raised inmate ire by publishing an editorial criticizing a prison...
...moon lo. Though having look-alike covers is an editor's nightmare that all too frequently comes true, the science magazines' trifecta was an interplanetary long shot. The picture is a computer composite of images radioed to earth by Voyager 1 last March. The three monthlies (total circ. 12,750,000) all sent their covers to press many weeks ago, and the editors say they are not in a lava over the coincidence. Says the Smithsonian's Don Moser: "It just confirms our good judgment." Confirmation does not end at home: China's Ziran Zazhi (Nature...