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Psychiatrists have identified a variety of disorientations blacks can suffer as a result of such immersions. Depending on the individual, the symptoms can range from an angry repudiation of whites to an emotional identification with whites so complete that victims undergo what University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire professor Ronald Hall describes as a "bleaching syndrome," in which they deny any connection with blacks...
...attacks and strokes that left him irretrievably comatose. The man had lived in mental hospitals since 1951, but even if his previous competence had been unquestionable, he now has no immediate family or close friends who could tell a court whether he wanted life-prolonging care. In June an Eau Claire County Circuit Court judge decided that L.W.'s legal guardian, Paul Lenz, has the right to decide whether to halt life supports. Lenz has appealed to the state supreme court for guidance...
...packs a month. President Gorbachev fired Vladilen Nikitin, his appropriately named head of state procurement, after finding his explanation for the shortage "unconvincing and unsound." Soviet smokers seem to agree. "It was bad enough when they took our vodka away," grumbled a man in a tobacco line. "There was eau de cologne or home brew to replace it. But what do you smoke instead of tobacco?" Suggested a young man next to him: "Try some grass...
Koepp has applied his inquisitive mind to the news since he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and took a job as a reporter at the Waukesha (Wis.) Freeman (circ. 23,000). In 1980 he wrote an award-winning series that revealed how a small-town mayor was determined to spend $6 million of taxpayers' money to dredge a local lake, in part so his friends could use it for water-skiing. Koepp moved to TIME in 1981, and in five years as a writer he probed such topics as the declining quality of American service, national gridlock...
...develops most of its projects internally, Big Blue plans to join forces with an outsider, Steve Chen, a leading supercomputer designer, to develop a machine for the 1990s that will be 100 times faster than today's speediest devices. Chen started his own tiny research company, Supercomputer Systems, of Eau Claire, Wis., only three months ago, after leaving industry leader Cray Research when that company balked at the $100 million cost of his next generation of machines...