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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME interns of 1988 were chosen from 58 finalists nominated by 33 participating schools. Senior Editor Jose Ferrer helped winnow that pool down to the fortunate half a dozen. "We look at how well they think, see and write," says Ferrer. "There's no formal training program. We orient them, explain how we operate and then set them to work." Four of TIME's interns are assigned to various sections of the magazine as reporter-researchers: Borras, who attends the University of Florida, is in World; Princeton's Lee is in the Humanities cluster; Charles Poe of Baylor...
...dozen years has the Pentagon been able to close a major military base, even though some of the installations it operates -- at a cost of billions to the taxpayers -- were built to help fend off marauding Indians or troublemaking Redcoats. The reason? Not Pentagon profligacy, for once, but political pork...
...stuff of science fiction, now appears to be just a matter of time. The mystic planet, glowing red and ever brighter in the night skies, is heading toward its closest approach to the earth in 17 years this September, tantalizingly near and beckoning. After a hiatus of a dozen years, during which neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union mounted missions to & Mars, a spacecraft is once again on its way, opening a new era in the exploration of the earth's closest planetary neighbor. During the next decade or so, the Soviets will launch a series of increasingly sophisticated...
John Cheever, in a lecture he delivered on Chekhov before his death, noted how often Chekhov crossed the border between life and art. "In reading a dozen stories of Chekhov," Cheever said...
...many Hispanics, the whole notion is ringed all around with skepticism and mixed feelings. (Who wants to cross over anyway? You come here.) Not everyone is crazy about the term Hispanic, which came into vogue in the 1970s and was seized by marketers; it seems to smudge a dozen separate nationalities into an ethnic blur. And a phenomenon made up so heavily of pop charts and box-office receipts is not much help in the struggles against such things as low wages and poor education, the things that count most for Hispanics still in the barrios. There are misgivings...