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...Fasten your seat belts, people: the Cleveland Indians will be contenders. Not just pretenders, either. In an AL Central division featuring the lowly likes of the Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, and Kansas City Royals, they are for real...

Author: By Mike E. Ginsberg, | Title: Baseball is Back | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

BUSINESS: Fasten Your Seat Belts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...that it reveals the gross and unreflective arbitrariness of public policies and proposals that--in the name of family values--fix their scornful attention on gays and lesbians. What could be easier--in the face of rampant heterosexual promiscuity, premarital sex, teenage pregnancy, and skyrocketing divorce crates--than to fasten our attention on a long-despised class of people who bear no children...

Author: By Steven Macedo, | Title: The New Natural Lawyers | 10/29/1993 | See Source »

...possibility that AIDS evolved in the African rain forests has raised the nightmare prospect that as humans continue to cut back tropical forests, other opportunistic new viruses may emerge to fasten on human hosts. "Imagine a virus like AIDS that was transmitted by droplets in the air rather than sexually, and which led to death in months rather than years. In these circumstances we might not have time to study the disease before it ravaged cities," says Uwe Brinkmann, a Harvard epidemiologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Megacities | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...Congress Fasten your seat belts, the gridlock is broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine contents page | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

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