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...director's ghoulishness and quietly sobs. Abraham Bomba was once a barber at Treblinka, charged with cutting the hair of women and children in the gas chambers immediately before their execution. Today he cuts hair in Israel, and in a bizarre "photo op," Lanzmann asks Bomba to display his Holocaust tonsorial technique on the customer who now sits in his barber chair. Later, overwhelmed by the memory of a fellow-barber's wife and sister entering the gas chamber, Bomba begs, "Don't make me go on please." Lanzmann continues to insist. For a minute or two the barber silently...
...manifestation of a new American concern over finding children who vanish. Increasingly, local TV stations carry pictures and descriptions of missing children. Youngsters are now being photographed and fingerprinted in schools and shopping malls from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. Buses, milk cartons and supermarket bags are used to display photos of missing children...
...much as the faculty does." As for the bulk of the faculty, the "mushy centrist types," as one professor describes himself, they celebrate the clash of new ideas, though sometimes wearily these days. Notes Professor Laurence Tribe: "I especially disagree with the rigidity, orthodoxy and intolerance that both extremes display toward those who are not part of their camp." It may be remembered, however, that the charge of arrogant complacency was once leveled at the entire Harvard faculty. Whatever the excesses and inadequacies of the challengers on the left and right, they have at least changed that. --By Richard Lacayo...
...health kits have become easier to use and more accurate. In 1977 e.p.t. provided an answer in two hours. A new version introduced this week, Improved e.p.t. Plus, takes ten minutes. Even the trusty old thermometer has been improved. Marshall Electronics' digital thermometer, which gives an easier-to-read display, cost $39.95 when it was released in 1979. Today's handier model is priced at just...
...would be able to make naked-eye sightings until late December. But Halley's is much brighter than it was expected to be, a phenomenon that may be only temporary. Scientists say that the comet's current luminosity does not necessarily portend, during the coming months, a more brilliant display than they had anticipated...