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...long run and can actually exacerbate damage. A seawall, for example, may protect threatened property behind it, but it often hastens the retreat of the beach in front as waves dash against the wall and scour away sand. Louis Sodano, mayor of Monmouth Beach, N.J., knows the process firsthand. "When I moved here 28 years ago, you could walk the whole beach," he remembers. "Now the waves slap against the wall. We've lost 100 ft. of beach in the past 28 years...
Finding good child care is difficult, but TIME staffers are resourceful. "It takes investigating," says Picture Researcher Dorothy Affa, whose son John, 2, shuttles between a neighbor and his grandmother on workdays. Reporter-Researcher Lois Gilman, mother of Seth, 8, and Eve, 7, learned firsthand about the need for a guide that includes child-care resources. The result: The New York Parents' Book: Your Guide to Raising Children in the City, due soon from Penguin Books...
Former Colorado Senator Gary Hart is now very much alone as the Democratic front runner, and that is not a position he particularly relishes. He knows firsthand the vulnerabilities that come from such exposure: in 1984 he conducted a guerrilla campaign that nearly toppled Walter Mondale, who had been considered virtually invincible...
...promptly. The revelation was seen as another sign of Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for glasnost, or openness. Still, Western journalists have long been barred from Alma-Ata -- until last week. Flying to the city with eleven other reporters, TIME Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson pieced together a firsthand account of the violence in Alma-Ata and its ambiguous aftermath. His report...
Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union has become a bewildering place for Westerners accustomed to a country where rigidity has been as eternal as February snows in Siberia. A group of eminent Americans arrived in Moscow last week for a firsthand look at the new and changing world of Soviet Communism that Gorbachev is trying to build. The Soviet Foreign Ministry and the Soviet Academy of Sciences had invited the eleven-member delegation from the Council on Foreign Relations, an elite, Manhattan-based organization devoted to world affairs (see following story). As hosts, the Soviets agreed to assume the trip...