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COVER: "Eat American!" is the new motto of trend-conscious food buffs...
...difficult climb, while paratroopers began rappelling down ropes from hovering helicopters. One of the fire men, scouring a ravine, suddenly shouted, "There's something moving down there!" He had spotted Ochiai between the seats. She was seriously hurt, with a broken pelvis and arm fractures, but she was conscious. Next the searchers found Keiko Kawakami, 12, caught in a tree and, incredibly, suffering only cuts and torn muscles. Also still alive were Hiroko Yoshizaki, 34, and her daughter Mikiko, 8, who were found under debris. Both had broken bones. The two children were lifted to the helicopter in the arms...
Faced with the higher tab for higher education, applicants are routinely asking colleges about the number of job offers and starting-salary averages for their graduates. With the cost-conscious in mind, Richard Moll, dean of admissions at the University of California, Santa Cruz has written The Public Ivys, due out next month. In it Moll profiles eight top-drawer public schools and nine runners-up. In many ways, he says, their quality "is quite comparable to anything the Ivy League has to offer," despite costs in some cases half that of the storied private institutions...
...Welcome to America!" What sounds like the official greeting at a U.S. international airport is in fact the standard hello to customers at one of New York City's newest, largest and most successful café-restaurants, called America. In a larger sense, that greeting is equally appropriate for style-conscious eaters who formerly restricted their gastronomic forays to France, where they devoted vacation times to seeking out the specialties of superstar chefs like Paul Bocuse, Michel Guérard and the Troisgros brothers. Now with equal zeal, many such adventurers are beginning to tour the U.S., eager to sample the highly...
...than two decades. He could not condone the notion, he said, of keeping the peace by threatening to blow up the world. We must, he implored Gorbachev, "find a better way." To the President, that meant reducing offensive weapons while seeking a transition to defensive weapons. He was quite conscious, he allowed, that Gorbachev sees a space defense system as simply a cover for achieving the capacity to wipe out the Soviets with a first strike. He wanted to assure Gorbachev that this was not, and would never...