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John Wayne, or possibly John Rambo, was still ghosting around some American imaginations last week. A banner stretched across I-75 in north Georgia -- a route the 101st Airborne traveled from Fort Campbell, Ky. -- gave the troopers a parting thought: GET THEIR GAS AND KICK THEIR ASS. Adrenaline, jingo and...
Giving away the ending of a movie or novel is considered very bad form. But for weeks Manhattan's literary gossip has been twittering with the news that John Updike's Rabbit at Rest, which will be published in October, concludes with the death of its hero. What's more...
Most visitors to Mapplethorpe's controversial "The Perfect Moment" arrive eager to discover for themselves exactly what sort of art manages to get Jesse Helms so uptight. In this instance, they usually leave with the perception that it does not take much. Helms' charges that the pictures are pornographic can...
Scientists have begun to think of possible uses for adaptive, self- replicating machines -- cleaning up toxic wastes, perhaps, or exploring outer space. There is a danger, though, that such machines could multiply uncontrollably, like the viruses that have disrupted computer networks. Doyne Farmer, a physicist at the Los Alamos lab...
There is a near manic devotion to Trendforschung, or trend research, to discover what is In or Out. The newest trend in holidays, for instance, is to avoid other Germans -- even if that means spending a month in Patagonia. The drift in sports is to golf; tennis has become "too...