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...this holocaust different from all other holocausts? In raw nightmare numbers, the Nazi extermination of 6 million European Jews ranks below the Soviet Union's systematic starvation of the rebellious Ukraine in 1932-33 (10 million by Stalin's count) and Mao's catastrophic Great Leap Forward into prolonged famine in 1957-62 (at least 27 million). Uganda and Kampuchea have produced more recent evidence that Hitler's policy of mass murder as an instrument of statecraft was not unique. Yet the Final Solution remains the archetype of man's bestiality to man, and there are compelling reasons for this...
Some artistic incarnations can be dangerous to the incarnator. Eugene O'Neill's father James was a talented actor who played the Count of Monte Cristo so many times, and so lucratively, that he ruined himself for anything else. He became the part. The illusion that was his success (the count) became his failure. (And so, in the artistic hall of mirrors, his playwright son reincarnated him in A Long Day's Journey into Night in order to destroy him once again...
...Geneva, any deal between the U.S. and the Soviets will be shaped by geopolitical factors, from the arcane abacus of nuclear armaments to the broader themes of superpower rivalry and coexistence. But inevitably policies are made by people, whose force of character and personalities can count for as much as their policy views. The zero-sum qualities of Reagan's top advisers have nearly paralyzed the tortuous process of hammering out an arms-control proposal that is acceptable to both Reagan and the Soviet Union. The man charged with shaping a consensus, National Security Adviser McFarlane, has great expertise...
...Asia can count on little help from the U.S. next year. Board Member Lawrence Krause, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, noted that America's exploding foreign debt, which is now approaching $100 billion, is unsustainable. It will put limits on what the U.S. can afford to buy from abroad...
Today, however, health tests designed for home use make it possible to identify and monitor many conditions without seeing the doctor. Uncomplicated do-it-yourself tests can be routinely obtained without prescription in drugstores across the U.S. For diabetics, Miles Laboratories makes the $150 Glucometer, which registers blood-sugar count. A diabetic applies a drop of blood to a 50¢ chemically treated strip, which is then fed into the machine. For couples hoping to have children, Tampax introduced in April a urine test that can pinpoint when a woman will be ovulating...