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...motion pictures and other quality programming for television. The property rights of these artists are ignored every time someone tapes a program without compensation to the copyright owner. Unless Congress comes up with an equitable formula for protecting copyright owners whose programs get taped, much of their work may disappear from the free TV market altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 4, 1982 | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...blame for most of our short memory belongs on the shoulders of American liberals and leftists, the Democratic Party, and our religious leadership. They've let the issue, as they've let many other like it, disappear. It is an old axiom that only the threat of American deaths will arouse American concern; El Salvador seems a case in point. Four dead Yankee Catholics and everyone noticed. "Military advisers," a phrase that sounded like Vietnam, and everyone noticed. "No Draft, No War, U.S. Out of El Salvador" was the most popular chant during Harvard's mid-March demonstration, perhaps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forgotten El Salvador | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...values it and needs it, particularly in helping to solve such delicate problems as the standoff in Lebanon, where Syria still maintains ground-to-air missiles that Israel has vowed to attack if they are not removed. Nonetheless, the U.S. is not unhappy to see the Saudi peace plan disappear, at least for a while, since it has added complications to already tense U.S.-Israeli relations and to dealings between the U.S. and Europe, which has given substantial support to the Saudi proposals. Says a State Department expert: "It's better to let it all cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Failure in Fez | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...brain structure and nervous system of the cat are also special. The divided feline cerebrum offers tantalizing clues to right-brain, left-brain investigations. The highly developed feline "flight-fight" mechanism may provide insights to the response in humans. So useful are cats that tens of thousands of them disappear into the nation's labs for experiments each year. Although researchers have studied cat brains with infinite care, none have discovered the secret of the cat's singular sound. The apparatus and meaning of purring remain a mystery of feline behavior, one of many unexplained traits that remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...From her parents and friends we've found that she is not the type of person who would disappear or go off by herself without telling them," Meehan said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Searching for Student Missing After Holiday Break | 12/4/1981 | See Source »

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