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Such special Australian content will be edited in Melbourne by a staff of 14 that includes some of the country's most talented and experienced journalists and is headed by Editor Jeff Penberthy, 43, who has worked in the U.S. and Japan as well as his native Australia for a variety of newspapers and business magazines. Penberthy's task will be to give TIME an Australian idiom while at the same time preserving the magazine's international character. Says he: "International events and impressions of this country abroad are having a critical effect on the Australian economy and affecting...
Often overworked and usually underpaid, the nurse has long been the doctor's reliable helpmate. Now more and more nurses, not content to be second-class citizens in the medical establishment, are hanging out their own shingles. They are seeing patients independently of doctors and opening up clinics. A San Rafael, Calif., newsletter, Nurse Entrepreneurs Exchange, estimates that in the past few years more than 10,000 nurses have gone into business for themselves. "Nurses can do more than change the bed and throw out the bedpan," says Joanne Gersten, who runs Erie Family Health Center, a 14-nurse clinic...
...free papers because they pay only for the type of circulation they want. New York City's Our Town, for example, goes to 121,000 well-to-do readers at all the best addresses in a 2.8-sq.-mi. area of Manhattan's Upper East Side. Thin on news content and partial to causes like raising funds for homeless pets, Our Town earned estimated revenues of $1 million last year and profits of about...
...President, who has persistently sought two-party support for the contras, called the vote a "giant bipartisan effort." Added a White House official: "It's not our biggest win. But it's one of the most satisfying in terms of both content and the fact that we came from behind." Opponents were more pessimistic, predicting that the aid would lead to greater U.S. military involvement in support of a corrupt rebel force. Said Michigan Democrat David Bonior: "The contra program has been rotten from the start...
...Carrington is content in the aristocrtic body, and some observers say his lack of ties to the voters is partially responsible for his lack of foresight regarding the Falklands crisis; he was away from London much of the time, and he was in Jerusalem just before the invasion. His greatest lapse, his friends and few detractors agree, came during his time as Conservative Party chairman. The coal miners were on strike, and Carrington played a key role in convincing Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath to call pivotal new elections. Heath called them a few weeks after Carrington wanted them...