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...with the Government's contention-outlined in a blizzard of affidavits from atomic experts and Cabinet Secretaries Cyrus Vance (State), Harold Brown (Defense) and James Schlesinger (Energy)-that the article would irreparably damage the security interests of the U.S. While conceding the story probably did not "provide a 'do-it-yourself' guide for the hydrogen bomb," Warren found that it contained vital concepts restricted under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. (Significantly, the Government could invoke no such statutory authority when it tried unsuccessfully to block publication of the Pentagon papers in 1971.) "The article could possibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: H-Bomb Ban | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...do-it-yourself test

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pregnancy Kits | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...would prefer not to be) is still coveted today. Despite some frowns from the medical establishment, a growing number of women are using commercial kits, sold over the counter in pharmacies, which are designed to allay their fears-or confirm their wishes-about pregnancy. Says one proponent of the do-it-yourself trend: "It gives me the opportunity to find out whether I am pregnant in the privacy of my home, to get accustomed to the idea of being pregnant long before I need to go through a gross examination in a doctor's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pregnancy Kits | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...word cliche means photograph in French). The most dramatic journalistic coup is a picture essay using exclusive photographs taken in Jonestown just before the mass suicide. A colorful jab at conspicuous consumption in Beverly Hills is reminiscent of the original Look, and so is a story about a do-it-yourself home-building school in Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Split Personality | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...clever and amusing Essay, "Running a Good Thing into the Ground" [Sept. 11]. However, please tell Mr. Trippett that we joggers will just keep jogging along in the knowledge that we are doing ourselves and our country a service by reducing the cost of health care through our own do-it-yourself health-maintenance programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1978 | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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